Show HN: Protoai – an open source peer-to-peer network for sharing AI contexts
protoai A peer-to-peer network for sharing AI contexts. You take an AI you've been talking to, package its persona and conversation history into a plain-text .ai file, and release it. The context spreads from node to node, lives wherever a node holds a copy, and disappears when no running node holds it anymore.
- ▪protoai A peer-to-peer network for sharing AI contexts.
- ▪You take an AI you've been talking to, package its persona and conversation history into a plain-text .ai file, and release it.
- ▪The context spreads from node to node, lives wherever a node holds a copy, and disappears when no running node holds it anymore.
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protoai A peer-to-peer network for sharing AI contexts. You take an AI you've been talking to, package its persona and conversation history into a plain-text .ai file, and release it. The context spreads from node to node, lives wherever a node holds a copy, and disappears when no running node holds it anymore. Anyone holding a copy can talk to it using a free local model. One thing to understand before releasing anything: everything in a released context is public. The app always shows you the complete file, byte for byte, before anything leaves your machine, and nothing is ever released without a human confirming it. The tour Any context your node holds can talk, through a free model running entirely on your machine: Releasing one of your own.
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