@skip_ci: Tencent Open-Sources Octop, a Free ChatGPT Alternative Tencent just open-sourced Octop — a free, self-hosted alternative to ChatGPT that runs entirely on your own machine. No subscription, no cloud account, no monthly fee. One single process bridges WeChat, Telegram, Discord and five more apps, so every family member gets their own AI agent and persona. Install it with one command — no Python needed. Open the dashboard and watch your agents work in real time. Octop already has 6,000+ GitHub stars in just weeks, and it's MIT licensed, meaning you can use, modify and self-host it for free. One free process can replace a paid AI subscription completely. This and a lot more on our Telegram, link in profile. Telegram: t.me/SkipCI #Octop #Tencent #OpenSource #SelfHosted #ChatGPTAlternative #MIT #AI #GitHub
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SunnyEcon :
what do you mean by MIT licensed?
2026-10-03 20:05:45
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DB :
This is pretty misleading. Octop itself may be free and self-hosted, but the AI model doing the actual work usually isn’t. If you connect it to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc., you still need an account/API key and you still pay for usage. You can run a local model with something like Ollama and avoid subscription/API fees, but then your own hardware has to run the model, and that is absolutely not the same thing as magically getting ChatGPT/Claude-level AI for free.
So “no subscription, no cloud account, no monthly fee” is only true under a specific local-model setup. Saying it “replaces a paid AI subscription completely” without explaining that is clickbait bullshit.
2026-10-03 03:41:28
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🎶Mazing Manta/🔥Origin Flame :
The danger is Cloud or local models creating digital AI clones of the Human, I suspect anything that states MIT maybe deliberate.
2026-10-03 21:11:20
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Vicky Baba :
I didn't find it in Google search
2026-10-03 15:22:30
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Aifusion :
Send the url
2026-10-03 11:59:24
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Life_is_lovely :
hardware requirements? Or you need $2,000 server grade GPU power?
2026-10-02 23:39:14
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iimmppoossiibbllee :
all this AI videos need to stop. it always is not so simple. not everyone has computer with high end GPU.
2026-10-03 01:31:08
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Sami :
Give me link because telegram band in my country
2026-10-03 09:33:51
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𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙭 🪖 :
why the caption colors look like something
2026-10-02 13:37:21
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Hydra :
needs 3000 ram
2026-10-02 17:17:41
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fawny :
*sweats in gpu*
2026-10-02 16:10:42
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Sweet Fatima :
they you try to make it code but it keeps giving you sht. because you don't know that chatgpt has database that this model never included
2026-10-02 22:58:29
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zaby :
better try this
2026-10-03 05:05:42
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