Best tools to build AI chatbots and assistants

Combine an app framework, a RAG pipeline, and a model API or local runtime to ship a chatbot that answers from your knowledge base.

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An open-source LLM application development platform offering visual orchestration, a RAG engine, and Agent capabilities for building AI apps quickly.

A feature-rich, self-hosted AI chat interface that supports Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs and can run fully offline.

Dive into the LangChain framework and master the core concepts of LLM application development, including Chains, Agents, and Memory.

Learn to build RAG applications and knowledge base systems with LlamaIndex.

Run large language models locally with Ollama, supporting open-source models such as Llama and Mistral.