Highlights
- Presents a graphical chat interface for exchanging messages with AI models.
- Acts as a client, relying on separate models to generate responses.
- Suits users who prefer a desktop window over a command-line session.
- Licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later, requiring derivatives to remain copyleft.
- Packaged for Linux only.
About this application
Alpaca is a Linux desktop application for holding conversations with AI models. It provides the front end for that interaction — entering prompts, reading replies, and working through an exchange in a chat layout — rather than being a model itself. The models supplying the answers are separate components that the application talks to.
For a reader deciding whether it fits their work, the relevant question is what supplies the responses on their own machine or network, since the application is a client and its usefulness depends on having a model available to it. Anyone who prefers a graphical window over a terminal session for this kind of exchange is the intended audience.
Distribution is limited to Linux, with no Windows, macOS, or mobile build in this entry. Jeffry Samuel Eduarte Rojas publishes it under GPL-3.0-or-later, so derivative works that are distributed must carry the same copyleft terms and make their source available.
Where to get it
Linux
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From the publisher
Install from a terminal
flatpak install flathub com.jeffser.Alpaca
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