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Tangentially, what are people using to have a unified interface to query multiple LLMs? Juggling multiple apps or websites for each provider gets annoying. I was using openrouter but the chat history is only stored in browser, so I'm looking for something else now. I tried open-webui[1] and that looks pretty good but I wonder if there are better alternatives.

[1] https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

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Give https://recurse.chat/ a try - I'm the developer. One particular advantage over alternative apps is importing ChatGPT history and speed of the app, including full-text search. You can import your thousands of conversations and every chat loads instantly.

We also recently added floating chat feature. Check out the demo: https://x.com/recursechat/status/1846309980091330815

Regarding chat history, I've been thinking that people should have ownership over chat history. We are migrating the chats towards SQLite, so your data is going to be a timeless format like files* - SQLite has long term support through year 2050. https://www.sqlite.org/lts.html

* See [File over app](https://stephango.com/file-over-app).

I'm a very, very happy user of TypingMind. It's not free, but it's worth the (one-time) license cost in my opinion. It has support for multiple providers, plugins, "agents" (pre-set templates), chat grouping, import/export, automatic syncing across devices, etc.

https://github.com/TypingMind/typingmind https://www.typingmind.com/

There are a ton of alternatives if you search around. I created my own because I wanted something keyboard centric, and use OpenRouter with it: https://github.com/iansinnott/prompta. They all accomplish roughly the same thing though.

this is the best app i’ve found so far, better than anything else. Unfortunately it’s not open source and is only free for personal use.

It has web search and RAG that actually works properly out of the box. No fiddling with 100 settings.

https://msty.app/

I agree, I'm also firmly convinced it's the best. Until a month ago it has some bugs I disagreed with some design choices, but since 1-2 weeks ago it's the absolute best I've ever used and have easily convinced others to use it.

I use Chaz to just talk to any LLM from Matrix, my normal chat client.

https://github.com/arcuru/chaz

Try MultiGPT which is a Chrome extension that consolidates several AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Bard, Claude, and more, into a single interfacee

This is so wasteful it boggles the mind.

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