Whirl: self-hosted AI chat app with every top model and real memory
An MIT-licensed, self-hosted AI chat app (Next.js/TypeScript) with access to top models via OpenRouter, real memory, living documents, and user-owned tools.
Why it matters
A polished open alternative to hosted chat apps you can run yourself: multi-model access, persistent memory, and documents that evolve, without a subscription.
What you could build with it
A small team could self-host Whirl as their shared AI workspace, keeping conversations and documents on their own infrastructure while switching between frontier models per task.
Does it hold up?
Too early to judge. Released Oct 2; the feature list is ambitious for a five-day-old repo, and no hands-on reviews or deployment reports exist yet.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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