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Solo developer Brangus releases free offline survival AI app with 1.5 million articles

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Brangus (@RatOrthodox), a solo developer, has released Survival LLM, a free app that runs an AI model and an offline library of 1.5 million articles on the user's computer.

The library includes medical guides, FEMA material, survival manuals and Wikipedia. The developer says internet access is needed only for setup; after that, the app works with no connection.

A Hacker News post on October 27 describes the app as free and open source and says it answers questions from FEMA, CDC and Wikipedia sources, listing the articles it used. The developer reports blind tests on an earlier build in which the largest model answered 21 of 22 blackout and first-aid questions correctly and the smallest answered 14 of 22. These results are the developer's own and have not been independently verified.

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Survival LLM is a free offline AI assistant with an emergency reference library

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Oct 27
  1. Hacker News · AI (150+ points)Blog
    Survival LLM is a free offline AI assistant with an emergency reference library

    AISurvival LLM is a free, open-source app that runs an AI model and an emergency reference library on the user's own computer. It answers questions from sources such as FEMA, CDC and Wikipedia, and lists the articles it used. The developer reports that in its own blind tests on an earlier build, the largest model got 21 of 22 blackout and first-aid questions right, while the smallest got 14 of 22.

Oct 24
  1. Brangus🔍⏹️X
    Solo founder releases free offline survival LLM with 1.5 million articles

    AIA solo founder releases a free app that runs an AI model locally with 1.5 million offline articles, including medical guides, FEMA material, survival manuals, and Wikipedia. The app works entirely on the user's computer without an internet connection.

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