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It seems to me that the big players are constantly playing catch-up. All these things have been available through API driven apps before they come to their app. By the time they figure, I’ve already got my own solution!

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Design convergence is a thing. Many of these features / flows can and have been built with LangChain, but not with same level of integration. The best ideas get copied by other AI providers. Latest example is Anthropic just announced (today!) their own version of context caching.

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I've been asked: Are there open source alternatives to OpenAI GPTs and Claude Projects?

The best answer I came up with was the Poe create bot feature, which allows you use many AI models (GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 pro, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, etc.) as a base model for customization via knowledge addition and system prompt tuning. However, while open wrt AI models it can use, it's not open-source. So is there a purely open source project that does the same? I haven't found it. If you know of one, I'm all ears; would like to try it.

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