# Jan Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Jan is your open-source, local AI powerhouse: run large language models (LLMs) like Llama and Mistral entirely offline for maximum privacy and data control.

Jan delivers a complete, open-source AI platform, positioning itself as a direct replacement for cloud-dependent services (e.g., ChatGPT). The core product, Jan Desktop, operates 100% offline on macOS, Windows, and Linux, ensuring your conversations and data never leave your device. It supports a hybrid model approach: run open-source LLMs like Llama and Mistral locally, or seamlessly connect to powerful cloud APIs (OpenAI, Groq) via API keys. The suite extends to Jan Server for private, on-premise infrastructure and a Web/Mobile roadmap, offering a full, customizable, and privacy-first AI stack.

- Official technology site: https://jan.ai
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 2
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Tool Use + Mozilla Blueprints](https://toronto.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_xlgsVBRz7oQ)

Mozilla Blueprints are customizable workflows that help developers build AI applications using open-source tools and models. They are teaming up with Mike and Ty from Tool Use to help more people learn about this great initiative. They put together AI commit, a basic tool to generate strong git commit messages using AI, all local. This Blueprint is a good demonstration for how anyone can build CLI tools quickly and easily.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Toronto - March 2025 Meetup at Mozilla — 2025-03-27 — Toronto
- Public talk page: https://toronto.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_xlgsVBRz7oQ

### [Run Local, open source AI](https://singapore.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_xdg42kFlb9w)

We're AI tinkerers passionate about local, open source AI. We'll demo how you can run popular open source AI models like Llama3, Mistral and Gemma on your own laptop with Jan.ai and Cortex.so.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Singapore: Inaugural Meetup - August 2nd, 2024 — 2024-08-02 — Singapore
- Public talk page: https://singapore.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_xdg42kFlb9w

## Related Technologies

- [Cortex](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/cortex) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/cortex.md)) — 2 public demos
- [fzf](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/fzf) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/fzf.md)) — 1 public demo
- [Gemma](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/gemma) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/gemma.md)) — 4 public demos
- [git](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/git) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/git.md)) — 24 public demos
- [Llama 3](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/llama-3) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/llama-3.md)) — 38 public demos
- [Mistral](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/mistral) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/mistral.md)) — 24 public demos
- [Ollama](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/ollama) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/ollama.md)) — 77 public demos