DeepChat - Powerful Open-Source Multi-Model AI Chat Platform

DeepChat is a feature-rich open-source AI chat platform supporting multiple cloud and local large language models with powerful search enhancement and tool calling capabilities.

📑 Table of Contents

• Project Introduction
• Why Choose DeepChat
• Feature Showcase
• Main Features
• Supported Model Providers
• Use Cases
• Quick Start
• Development Guide
• Community & Contribution
• License

🚀 Project Introduction

DeepChat is a powerful open-source AI chat platform providing a unified interface for interacting with various large language models. Whether you're using cloud APIs like OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, or locally deployed Ollama models, DeepChat delivers a smooth user experience.

As a cross-platform AI assistant application, DeepChat not only supports basic chat functionality but also offers advanced features such as search enhancement, tool calling, and multimodal interaction, making AI capabilities more accessible and efficient.

💡 Why Choose DeepChat

Compared to other AI chat tools, DeepChat offers the following unique advantages:

• Unified Multi-Model Management: One application supports almost all mainstream LLMs, eliminating the need to switch between multiple apps
• Seamless Local Model Integration: Built-in Ollama support allows you to manage and use local models without command-line operations
• Powerful Search Enhancement: Support for multiple search engines makes AI responses more accurate and timely
• Advanced Tool Calling: Built-in MCP support enables code execution, web access, and other tools without additional configuration
• Privacy-Focused: Local data storage and network proxy support reduce the risk of information leakage
• Business-Friendly: Embraces open source under the Apache License 2.0, suitable for both commercial and personal use

📸 Feature Showcase

Reasoning Capabilities

Search Enhancement

LaTeX Support

Artifacts Support

🔥 Main Features

• 🌐 Multiple Cloud LLM Provider Support: DeepSeek, OpenAI, Silicon Flow, Grok, Gemini, Anthropic, and more
• 🏠 Local Model Deployment Support:
  • Integrated Ollama with comprehensive management capabilities
  • Control and manage Ollama model downloads, deployments, and runs without command-line operations
• 🚀 Rich and Easy-to-Use Chat Capabilities
  • Complete Markdown rendering with excellent code block display
  • Native support for simultaneous multi-session conversations; start new sessions without waiting for model generation to finish, maximizing efficiency
  • Supports Artifacts rendering for diverse result presentation, significantly saving token consumption after MCP integration
  • Messages support retry to generate multiple variations; conversations can be forked freely, ensuring there's always a suitable line of thought
  • Supports rendering images, Mermaid diagrams, and other multi-modal content; includes Gemini's text-to-image capabilities
  • Supports highlighting external information sources like search results within the content
• 🔍 Robust Search Extension Capabilities
  • Built-in integration with leading search APIs like Brave Search via MCP mode, allowing the model to intelligently decide when to search
  • Supports mainstream search engines like Google, Bing, Baidu, and Sogou Official Accounts search by simulating user web browsing, enabling the LLM to read search engines like a human
  • Supports reading any search engine; simply configure a search assistant model to connect various search sources, whether internal networks, API-less engines, or vertical domain search engines, as information sources for the model
• 🔧 Excellent MCP (Model Controller Platform) Support
  • Extremely user-friendly configuration interface
  • Aesthetically pleasing and clear tool call display
  • Detailed tool call debugging window with automatic formatting of tool parameters and return data
  • Built-in Node.js runtime environment; npx-like services require no extra configuration
  • Supports StreamableHTTP/SSE/Stdio protocols
  • Supports inMemory services with built-in utilities like code execution, web information retrieval, and file operations; ready for most common use cases out-of-the-box without secondary installation
  • Converts visual model capabilities into universally usable functions for any model via the built-in MCP service
• 💻 Multi-Platform Support: Windows, macOS, Linux
• 🎨 Beautiful and User-Friendly Interface, user-oriented design, meticulously themed light and dark modes
• 🔗 Rich DeepLink Support: Initiate conversations via links for seamless integration with other applications. Also supports one-click installation of MCP services for simplicity and speed
• 🚑 Security-First Design: Chat data and configuration data have reserved encryption interfaces and code obfuscation capabilities
• 🛡️ Privacy Protection: Supports screen projection hiding, network proxies, and other privacy protection methods to reduce the risk of information leakage
• 💰 Business-Friendly, embraces open source, based on the Apache License 2.0 protocol

🤖 Supported Model Providers

Ollama	Deepseek	Silicon	QwenLM
Doubao	MiniMax	Fireworks	PPIO
OpenAI	Gemini	GitHub Models	Moonshot
OpenRouter	Azure OpenAI	Qiniu	Grok

Compatible with any model provider in OpenAI/Gemini/Anthropic API format

🔍 Use Cases

DeepChat is suitable for various AI application scenarios:

• Daily Assistant: Answering questions, providing suggestions, assisting with writing and creation
• Development Aid: Code generation, debugging, technical problem solving
• Learning Tool: Concept explanation, knowledge exploration, learning guidance
• Content Creation: Copywriting, creative inspiration, content optimization
• Data Analysis: Data interpretation, chart generation, report writing

📦 Quick Start

Download and Install

Download the latest version for your system from the GitHub Releases page:

• Windows: .exe installation file
• macOS: .dmg installation file
• Linux: .AppImage or .deb installation file

Configure Models

1. Launch the DeepChat application
2. Click the settings icon
3. Select the "Model Providers" tab
4. Add your API keys or configure local Ollama

Start Conversations

1. Click the "+" button to create a new conversation
2. Select the model you want to use
3. Start communicating with your AI assistant

💻 Development Guide

Please read the Contribution Guidelines

Windows and Linux are packaged by GitHub Action. For Mac-related signing and packaging, please refer to the Mac Release Guide.

Install Dependencies

$ npm install
$ npm run installRuntime
# if got err: No module named 'distutils'
$ pip install setuptools
# for windows x64
$ npm install --cpu=x64 --os=win32 sharp
# for mac apple silicon
$ npm install --cpu=arm64 --os=darwin sharp
# for mac intel
$ npm install --cpu=x64 --os=darwin sharp
# for linux x64
$ npm install --cpu=x64 --os=linux sharp

Start Development

$ npm run dev

Build

# For Windows
$ npm run build:win

# For macOS
$ npm run build:mac

# For Linux
$ npm run build:linux

# Specify architecture packaging
$ npm run build:win:x64
$ npm run build:win:arm64
$ npm run build:mac:x64
$ npm run build:mac:arm64
$ npm run build:linux:x64
$ npm run build:linux:arm64

👥 Community & Contribution

DeepChat is an active open-source community project, and we welcome various forms of contribution:

• 🐛 Report issues
• 💡 Submit feature suggestions
• 🔧 Submit code improvements
• 📚 Improve documentation
• 🌍 Help with translation

Check the Contribution Guidelines to learn more about ways to participate in the project.

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👨‍💻 Contributors

Thank you for considering contributing to deepchat! The contribution guide can be found in the Contribution Guidelines.

📃 License

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