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October 1st, 2025

AI for teachers who care about student privacy

Use AI in teaching without risking student data. Jan helps teachers plan lessons, grade faster, and communicate with parents.

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September 30th, 2025

Private AI for legal professionals who need confidentiality

It's possible to use AI without risking client data. Jan helps lawyers save time while keeping clients safe.

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September 30th, 2025

If ChatGPT is down, switch to AI that never goes down

Check if ChatGPT down right now, and learn how to use AI that never goes down.

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September 29th, 2025

ChatGPT alternatives that actually replace it

See the best ChatGPT alternatives in 2025. We've listed tools that are alternatives to ChatGPT.

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September 17th, 2025

How we (try to) benchmark GPU kernels accurately

We present the process behind how we decided to benchmark GPU kernels and iteratively improved our benchmarking pipeline

research

August 22nd, 2025

Jan v1 for Deep Research: System Prompts & Setup Guide

Explore Jan-V1 capabilities in report generation and research tasks with prompt comparisons, examples, and customization instructions.

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August 6th, 2025

Run OpenAI's gpt-oss locally in 5 mins (Beginner Guide)

Complete 5-minute beginner guide to running OpenAI's gpt-oss locally. Step-by-step setup with Jan AI for private, offline AI conversations.

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August 4th, 2025

Replicating Deep Research in Jan

A simple guide to replicating Deep Research results for free, with Jan.

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May 10th, 2025

Best Settings to Run Qwen3-30B-A3B Locally

If you're running Qwen3-30B-A3B locally, don't guess your way through the settings. This guide tells you what actually works based on Qwen's own documentation and what we've seen hold up in practice.

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February 8th, 2025

Offline ChatGPT: You can't run ChatGPT offline, do this instead

ChatGPT requires internet to work. Jan is a free offline ChatGPT replacement that runs 100% on your computer. Download for Mac, Windows & Linux.

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January 31st, 2025

Run DeepSeek R1 locally on your device (Beginner-Friendly Guide)

A straightforward guide to running DeepSeek R1 locally regardless of your background.

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January 31st, 2025

How to run AI models locally as a beginner?

A straightforward guide to running AI models locally on your computer, regardless of your background.

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April 29th, 2024

Benchmarking NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM

This post compares the performance of TensorRT-LLM and llama.cpp on consumer NVIDIA GPUs, highlighting the trade-offs among speed, resource usage, and convenience.

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January 10th, 2024

Bitdefender False Positive Flag

10th January 2024, Jan's 0.4.4 Release on Windows triggered Bitdefender to incorrectly flag it as infected with Gen:Variant.Tedy.258323, leading to automatic quarantine warnings on users' computers.

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