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Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Re: Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Post by pyman »

metrix wrote: post #19
al_borland wrote: post #13

I like the idea of a single chat with many models. Pre-AI-everything, I was already a Kagi user, so already paying for that. I've started using the Kagi Assistant[0] to solve this for myself. I pay $10/month, as I always did, and that's my credit limit to the various LLMs. They added an AI cost tracker to create transparency to those costs. So far this month I've used $0.88 of my $10.00 allotment. So I don't feel lik…

I've been using openrouter.ai to use "all llm's". No subscription, and can be tied to your editor of choice

For free? How's that possible when one AI prompt uses 10x more energy than a Google search [1]?

[1] Source: https://kanoppi.co/search-engines-vs-ai-energy-consumption-c...

Re: Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Post by swores »

Question to people talking about the various alternatives that already exist for this: does anyone know if there's something like OpenRouter that's open source and that, either as the only interface or preferably as an optional alternative to a web interface, lets you use a standard non-AI chat app (ideally Signal, more likely WhatsApp) as the interface?

Edit: I'd still be grateful for a reply with any recommendations or other options, but ChatGPT has given me a few things to look into when I'm at my PC - https://chatgpt.com/share/6873a9b5-ea8c-800c-b111-96b5f27a09...

Re: Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions

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Post by lemming »

I'll bite: what is the web search story like? This is the killer feature of e.g. chatgpt that none of the alternative or OSS options offer. Having the search be fast (i.e. not round tripping to the client on every search) and integrated into the thinking process is unbeatable, I use it constantly. The big API providers all provide search options in their APIs now, but they're very quirky - openai doesn't allow search via their API with thinking models. Gemini doesn't allow you to use search with any other tools available. Claude's just doesn't seem to work that well, even in their own web UI. I even paid for typing mind, which is nice, but I never use it and always just end up paying for chatgpt again because of this.
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