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Apps & UIsRetrieval & Memory
PrivateGPT
1Chat 2privately 3with 4your 5documents 6offline
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Maintained by Zylon (zylon-ai).
W2
What
A production-ready RAG application to ask questions about your documents entirely offline.
W3
Where
Runs self-hosted as a Python service on CPU or GPU, with an API and UI.
W4
When
Reach for it when data privacy is critical and you need local document Q&A.
W5
Why
Designed for privacy so no data leaves your environment during ingestion or inference.
W6
With
Local LLM and embedding models (or configured providers); GPU recommended.
W7
Watch
Built by Zylon; open-source (Apache-2.0); self-hostable and can run 100% offline for privacy.
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