GenAI Chat is an open-source serverless alternative to ChatGPT.

There are plenty of open source alternatives like chatwithgpt.ai. The goal of this particular project was to make a version that:

• Supports plugins
• Supports open source LLMs
• Is completely pay-per-use ($0/mo if unused)
• Runs as a progressive web app
• Has no automatic log out

This comes at the cost of:

• Being less secure and more buggy
• Requiring 3 cloud accounts to host (netlify, cockroachlabs, modal)

• Easy to add arbitrary plugins/functions/agents
• Easy to add hugging face open source transformers (LLAMA 3)
• OpenAI API streaming
• Image generation (StableDiffusion XL, DALLE)
• Automatic chat title generation
• Sharable links (when you make a chat public)
• Speech (STT) to Audio (TTS) voice chat

At a high level:

• Netlify is used for cheap cloud functions and static hosting
• Cockroach labs is used for cheap persistent storage
• Modal is used for long-running functions and serverless GPU functions (this is the only thing that is not free)

1. Fork this repo
2. Create a postgres database on cockroachlabs (free)
3. Create a netlify app and connect it to your fork (free)
4. Add netlify env vars

DATABASE_URL (from cockroachlabs)
OPENAI_API_KEY (from openai)

6. Create a modal account
7. On modal create llm-chat-secret

# Required
DATABASE_URL (from cockroachlabs)
HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN (from huggingface)
OPENAI_API_KEY (from openai)

# Semi Optional
SERPER_API_KEY (from https://serper.dev/)
WOLFRAM_ALPHA_APPID (https://developer.wolframalpha.com/)

# Semi Optional File Storage (uses imgur if provided or falls back to s3)
IMGUR_CLIENT_ID
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
AWS_BUCKET_NAME
ELEVEN_API_KEY

8. Deploy modal cd modal && modal deploy modalapp
9. Create an API key cd modal && python scripts/create_user.py --name "John Smith"
10. Update src\backend.js with deployed modal endpoint (API_ENDPOINT) OR use ?backend=<modal endpoint> in the URL at chat.sshh.io.
11. Go to <netlify site>/?key=<API key>

Note that plugins are only supported for openai functions agents.

Just add a new function to /modal/tools/tools.py.

1. Update models/chat_hf_inference.py and adjust to whatever model you want