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⚠️ Jan is currently in Development: Expect breaking changes and bugs!
Jan is an open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs 100% offline on your computer.
Jan runs on any hardware. From PCs to multi-GPU clusters, Jan supports universal architectures:
- Nvidia GPUs (fast)
- Apple M-series (fast)
- Apple Intel
- Linux Debian
- Windows x64
Version Type | Windows | MacOS | Linux | |
Stable (Recommended) | jan.exe | Intel | M1/M2 | jan.deb |
Experimental (Nighlty Build) | Github action artifactory |
Download the latest version of Jan at https://jan.ai/ or visit the GitHub Releases to download any previous release.
Realtime Video: Jan v0.4.3-nightly on a Mac M1, 16GB Sonoma 14
Nitro is a high-efficiency C++ inference engine for edge computing. It is lightweight and embeddable, and can be used on its own within your own projects.
As Jan is in development mode, you might get stuck on a broken build.
To reset your installation:
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Remove Jan from your Applications folder and Cache folder
make clean
This will remove all build artifacts and cached files:
- Delete Jan from your
/Applications
folder - Clear Application cache in
/Users/$(whoami)/Library/Caches/jan
- Delete Jan from your
-
Use the following commands to remove any dangling backend processes:
ps aux | grep nitro
Look for processes like "nitro" and "nitro_arm_64," and kill them one by one with:
kill -9 <PID>
Contributions are welcome! Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md file
- node >= 20.0.0
- yarn >= 1.22.0
- make >= 3.81
- Clone the repository and prepare:
git clone https://github.com/janhq/jan
cd jan
git checkout -b DESIRED_BRANCH
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Run development and use Jan Desktop
make dev
This will start the development server and open the desktop app.
# Do steps 1 and 2 in the previous section
# Build the app
make build
This will build the app MacOS m1/m2 for production (with code signing already done) and put the result in dist
folder.
Our nightly build process for this project is defined in .github/workflows/jan-electron-build-nightly.yml
The nightly build is triggered at 2:00 AM UTC every day.
Getting on Nightly:
- Join our Discord server here and go to channel github-jan.
- Download the build artifacts from the channel.
- Subsequently, to get the latest nightly, just quit and restart the app.
- Upon app restart, you will be automatically prompted to update to the latest nightly build.
Stable releases are triggered by manual builds. This is usually done for new features or a bug fixes.
The process for this project is defined in .github/workflows/jan-electron-build-nightly.yml
Jan builds on top of other open-source projects:
- Bugs & requests: file a GitHub ticket
- For discussion: join our Discord here
- For business inquiries: email [email protected]
- For jobs: please email [email protected]
Jan is free and open source, under the AGPLv3 license.