Jan

Jan is an open-source desktop AI application for running local models and connecting supported cloud providers. Users should verify model licenses and outputs, secure provider keys, understand hardware requirements, configure data and network access, and monitor cloud usage.

Begin with a small, reversible test using only authorized and necessary inputs. Configure privacy, access, quality, export, disclosure, and spending controls; compare results with original sources and representative benchmarks; correct errors; and keep a responsible person in control before publishing, deploying code, contacting people, changing records, or making consequential decisions.

The Jan application is free and open source. Local use requires suitable hardware, while cloud models, APIs, hosting, and enterprise services may cost extra.

AI output and automated actions can be inaccurate, biased, incomplete, unsafe, stale, or misleading, while services may process confidential, copyrighted, personal, voice, health, financial, educational, or regulated information. Check consent, retention, model-training, licenses, platform rules, renewal terms, accessibility, and security, and use qualified human review for high-impact work.