An intriguing AI chatbot alternative

Go beyond ChatGPT  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ [Cool Tools, by The Intelligence](#) Brought to you by: [HubSpot logo]()​ The future of AI is open, private, and much more under your control. AI models will run on your own computer or phone. You won't have to send your conversations with AI to a big company's servers — your data will stay on your device. You'll be able to choose which chatbot you like best, too. That future is here today. But it often requires powerful computing hardware. Your current laptop or phone may not run AI chatbots locally with good performance — not yet, anyway. Today's Cool Tool is an easy way to unplug from the big AI chatbots we hear about every day — OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, and Google's Gemini — and try out the kind of chatbots you might just be running on your own computer or phone some day real soon. 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No Stats PhD required! 🧠Designed for all careers and skill levels ⏰ Can be completed at your own pace 👑 Created by HubSpot (the gurus behind The Hustle, read by 1.5+ million) Ready to WOW your CEO or colleagues with your newfound skill? ➜ [Better your brain and download the Introduction to Data Visualization course today!]() [CLAIM YOUR FREE COURSE ➜]() ​ Use the best open-source chatbots in your browser ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini run on a big company's servers. Even if you had powerful computing hardware, you couldn't run them yourself. A few big companies control them. ➜ But now, there's a growing ecosystem of open-source chatbots anyone can run, modify, and improve. [HuggingChat](=) is an excellent way to try the best ones in your web browser — for free, and without installing anything. ⌚ You can start chatting with a chatbot in about 15 seconds. ​[HuggingChat](=) is a free AI chatbot website from [Hugging Face](), a popular community website where people share AI models and data sets. With HuggingChat, you can try a collection of the best open-source chatbots in just a few clicks. Is one chatbot not giving you the results you want? Is the AI model refusing to answer a question? You don't have to argue with it — you can switch to another chatbot in just a few clicks. To use it, head to the [HuggingChat website](=) and sign up for a free Hugging Face account. (There's no Android or iPhone app, but the HuggingChat website works nicely in a smartphone web browser, too.) 🤔 Don't want to sign up for an account to use an AI chatbot on the web? Good news: [ChatGPT]() just recently dropped the account requirement. You can use it without signing into anything. Once you've signed in, you'll get a convenient, easy-to-use chatbot interface that looks a lot like ChatGPT. Just type a question or other prompt and chat. You can also toggle "Search web" on and off depending on whether you'd like your chatbot to search the web for info. [The HuggingChat website.] ​ That "Current Model" box is the big draw here. You can click the gear and switch between a variety of different AI models, including Meta's Llama 3, Google's lightweight Gemma 7B model, Microsoft's Phi-3 Mini model, and Mistral AI's Mixtral. They're all different, and they'll respond to your prompts in different ways. [AI model settings in HuggingChat.] That's it — it's an AI chatbot interface! But you're in control. Of course, you'll be even more in control if you opt to run these models on your own computer and phone in the future. That's where computing is heading. 📌 HuggingChat is [available on the web](=). The website works on both desktop and mobile web browsers. 💰 This service is completely free. 🕶 HuggingChat's [privacy policy]() says your conversations are private and will not be shared with anyone. They will also not be used to train AI models. You can access past conversations in your account, but you can delete those past conversations whenever you like. ​ This Week's Cool Tools Quiz BlackBerry phones were popular in the early 2000s. Which big feature made them stand out from the "dumb phones" of that era? Remember: NO CHEATING! Anyone can look up info on the web. Stick with the spirit of the game and test your actual knowledge without searching. It's just for fun, anyway! [Touch screen](=) [Lots of apps](=) [QWERTY keyboard](=) [Voice control](=) Answer correctly before next Wednesday and secure your spot on the [Cool Tools Leaderboard](=)! 👉 Last week's question and answer: Outside of smartphones, traditional high-quality cameras are known as DSLR devices. 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