Survival LLM launches as an open-source offline emergency assistant
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Hacker News featured Survival LLM on October 28, a free open-source AI assistant and emergency reference library that runs locally. After a one-time online install, users can ask questions offline, and the assistant shows the source articles and the matching original text. It supports Mac and Windows and downloads a model matched to the computer's memory. The library covers medical, emergency, survival and repair guides plus about 930,000 Wikipedia articles. The full library is a 9 GB download and takes 19 GB once installed.
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- Hacker News front pageSurvival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
Survival LLM 是免费开源的本地 AI 助手与应急资料库，联网完成安装后可离线回答问题，并展示来源文章及对应原文。它支持 Mac 和 Windows，按电脑内存下载适配模型，资料库包含医疗、应急、生存及维修指南和约 930,000 篇 Wikipedia 文章，完整资料库下载量为 9 GB，安装后占用 19 GB。
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