ChatAI : Local AI Assistant Multimodal Sidebar by ChatAI

ChatAI: Your Browser's Private Neural Core

Bring the full force of cutting-edge artificial intelligence right into your Firefox sidebar—entirely offline, entirely secure.

ChatAI bridges the gap between your browser and local intelligence engines, empowering you to process documents, parse images, write code, and converse with local LLMs without leaking a single byte of data to third-party cloud servers.
🌟 Why ChatAI?

Zero Cloud Reliance: Connect directly to your local Ollama backend or any OpenAI-compatible API. Your conversations, prompts, and files never leave your machine.

Multimodal Vision: Drag, drop, and analyze screenshots, UI designs, or photos instantly using local vision-language models.

Contextual RAG: Feed PDFs, documentation, and web snippets to your models to instantly query your private knowledge base.

Developer-Ready Workspace: Built-in syntax highlighting, instant code-block extraction, and prompt templates designed for high-velocity coding.

Voice-Enabled: Speak your prompts fluidly for hands-free browsing and interaction.


⚙ Quick Start Guide

To unlock ChatAI's full vision and text capabilities, set up a local runtime in minutes:

Get Ollama: Download and install the runtime for your system from ollama.com/download.

Pull a Multimodal Model: Fire up your terminal and download a powerful local model to handle both text and images:

ollama pull minicpm-v4.6

ollama pull gemma4

ollama pull qwen3.6

Launch & Sync: Open ChatAI in your Firefox sidebar, point it to your local Ollama port, and experience true private browsing intelligence.