HuggingChat — The Open-Source Alternative to ChatGPT

Deep dive into everything to know about this open-source AI chatbot

What is HuggingChat?

HuggingChat is an artificial intelligence chatbot. Developed by its parent company, Hugging Face, it leverages an open-source model, positioning it within the landscape of AI solutions alongside OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

HuggingChat was released by Hugging Face, an artificial intelligence company founded in 2016 with the self-proclaimed goal of democratizing AI. The open-source company builds applications and assets using machine learning and works as a platform where users can share different models and datasets.HuggingChat currently runs Open Assistant, a bot that was created by the Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION), the German non-profit behind Stable Diffusion.

Accessing HuggingChat is as easy as going to HuggingFace.co/Chat and starting a conversation. There is no need to log into Hugging Face or create an account to access the AI chat. The landing page will be the chat window.

The tool is currently in development (v.0.9.4), which may impact performance. At times, I’d experience intermittent slow responses
Occasional non-responses, typically during peak server loads.

All models available on HuggingChat

HuggingChat has previously utilized various models, including Llama 2 70B, CodeLlama 35B, Falcon 180B, Mistral 7B, Coherence Command R+, and Google Gemma 7B. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list. For the…