SoloGPT was born from a simple question: What if we need AI when there is no internet? There is one particular problem that most AI services have in common, namely that virtually all of them depend heavily on the internet to provide functionality. The desire to change this situation gave rise to my current project called SoloGPT, which allows me to use AI tools locally and without any need to connect to remote servers. Of course, creating software that runs locally proved to be much harder than I expected. While there were several alternatives available, they had major drawbacks such as being hard to understand, extremely slow, or requiring powerful computers. For SoloGPT, it was crucial that anyone could easily install the model based on a recommendation by the app on a particular device and begin interacting with AI immediately, regardless of whether they did so from their phone. In the course of creating SoloGPT, my project has grown considerably from what used to be just an offline chatbot. First, I tested various lightweight local models until adding more advanced architectures that are optimized specifically for smartphones (such as Llama, Gemma, and Qwen). As for functionality, at this point, SoloGPT provides everything from offline chats to writing, idea generation, document analysis, and even AI vision models. In terms of the development process, one of the best things about creating SoloGPT was seeing firsthand the difference that fully offline AI can make for people. Whether it involves working on code in flight, analyzing confidential documents, maintaining privacy by journaling through AI, or using AI in situations with limited internet access, offline AI can really change many people's lives for the better. Overall, the vision behind SoloGPT is quite simple: you don't need the internet and clouds to make AI useful.

SoloGPT

Offline AI Workspace, YC application

Offline AI Workspace, YC application