# OpenBuddy/OpenBuddy

Open Multilingual Chatbot for Everyone

Repository: https://github.com/OpenBuddy/OpenBuddy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/openbuddy
Homepage: https://openbuddy.ai
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-06-08T06:53:20+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 41/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 25, release rhythm 35, longevity 87
- inputs: {"age_days": 1225, "days_push": 451, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1294, forks 78 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:16.287393+00:00)

## What it is
OpenBuddy is a family of open multilingual chatbot LLMs fine-tuned from Falcon and LLaMA base models with extended vocabulary and CJK token support. It provides downloadable model weights in various sizes with quantized CPU deployment via llama.cpp and Ollama.

## Use cases
- run a multilingual chatbot locally offline
- chat with an AI in Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, or German
- translate text between languages with an open model
- deploy a quantized LLM on CPU with llama.cpp
- download open chatbot model weights from HuggingFace
- self-host a conversational AI assistant on consumer hardware

## When to choose
- you need an open, offline-capable chatbot with strong Chinese/English and other multilingual support
- you want quantized model weights runnable on consumer-grade hardware via Ollama or llama.cpp
- you need CJK-optimized vocabulary and token embeddings in an open model

## When to avoid
- you need a chat application or ready-made UI rather than model weights
- you require the latest frontier-level reasoning or multimodal capabilities
- you need a hosted API service without local deployment

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: llm-inference, chatbot, machine-learning, nlp
- domain: large-language-models, chatbots, artificial-intelligence
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform, cli
- tags: multilingual, fine-tuned-llm, llama, falcon, quantization, llama-cpp, ollama, huggingface, translation, offline-ai, cjk-support, open-weights, natural-language-processing, gpu

## Member repositories
- OpenBuddy/OpenBuddy (main) score 41

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:16.287393+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:54:03.661896+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/OpenBuddy/OpenBuddy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:16.287393+00:00, sha c452daa45cb3)
  - homepage: https://openbuddy.ai (fetched 2026-08-29T12:11:11.321061+00:00, sha dcec3c22b665)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.