Show HN: I built Otis, a minimal AI agent that runs local models out of the box

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Otis is an open-source AI agent that provides a minimal, privacy-focused experience for running local and hosted open-weight models, automatically recommending and downloading models based on hardware.

Hi everyone,<p>Been working on Otis, an open-source ai agent that gives you one minimal experience across local and hosted open-weight models, privacy-focused by design.<p>On setup it recommends a local model based on the hardware Otis is running on, downloads it and runs it through llama.cpp for you. Ollama, LM Studio and Nvidia PAIR are supported too.<p>Excited for everyone to try it and all feedback is welcome!
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