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Vane 🔍
Vane is a privacy-focused AI answering engine that runs entirely on your own hardware. It combines knowledge from the vast internet with support for local LLMs (Ollama) and cloud providers (OpenAI, Claude, Groq), delivering accurate answers with cited sources while keeping your searches completely private.
Want to know more about its architecture and how it works? You can read it here.
✨ Features
🤖 Support for all major AI providers - Use local LLMs through Ollama or connect to OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Groq, and more. Mix and match models based on your needs.
⚡ Smart search modes - Choose Speed Mode when you need quick answers, Balanced Mode for everyday searches, or Quality Mode for deep research.
🧭 Pick your sources - Search the web, discussions, or academic papers. More sources and integrations are in progress.
🧩 Widgets - Helpful UI cards that show up when relevant, like weather, calculations, stock prices, and other quick lookups.
🔍 Web search powered by SearxNG - Access multiple search engines while keeping your identity private. Support for Tavily and Exa coming soon for even better results.
📷 Image and video search - Find visual content alongside text results. Search isn't limited to just articles anymore.