The arrival of Hugging Chat Assistants shows how fast the open source community continues to catch up to closed rivals such as OpenAI.

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Hugging Face has launched customizable AI chatbots, offering a free alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Users can easily create their own chatbots with specific capabilities using Hugging Chat Assistants. The tool allows users to choose from a variety of open source language models to power their AI Assistant, unlike OpenAI's proprietary models. However, Hugging Chat Assistants currently lack some features available in OpenAI's GPTs.

Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs

Better in some ways than GPTs, worse than others