







A tool calling chat bot built with Jev and no LLM.
A Gentle Intro to Running a Local LLM
Open, small LLMs have gotten good enough that non-technical people can benefit from having a local chatbot on their machine.

Introducing npm i chat – One codebase, every chat platform - Vercel
Chat SDK is now open source and available in public beta. It's a TypeScript library for building chat bots that work across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, GitHub, and Linear — from a single codebase.

This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow
Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.

Building your own Delta Chat bot is easy. Read on for some basic information and maybe have a look at our example bots.
I don't pay for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude – I stick to my self-hosted LLMs instead
There's no point in relying on AI tools when my local LLMs can handle everything

The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions
From ChatGPT Plugins to Agent Skills, a look at how we've been trying (and failing) to extend LLMs for the last three years.

maxleedev on Twitter / X
current chat interfaces suck, so i built a canvas for llms https://t.co/s0vAq0g8aH pic.twitter.com/94RvYgIrGV— maxleedev (@maxleedev) September 2, 2025
Matrix and Element: a case study of funding an open protocol for real time chat
Matrix is a distributed comms protocol for real-time chat that looks like it is taking off.
The AI summer — Benedict Evans
Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back. Every big company has done a pilot, but far fewer are in deployment. Some of this is just a matter of time. But LLMs might also be a trap: they look like products and they look magic, but they aren’t. Maybe we ha

Announcing CSML, a new open-source language to easily build full-featured chatbots
We are building the framework to support the chatbots of the future


bot.timtinkers.online/streamplace-bot
A work-in-progress chat bot for Streamplace with chat overlay functionality
Real-Time Engagement & Conversational AI Platform | Agora
Build ultra-low latency voice, video, chat, and voice AI experiences for meaningful human-to-human and human-to-AI conversations, with flexible APIs and no-code & low-code tools.

chatmail/core
Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop chatmail apps, bindings and bots 📧