Newelle, ‘Virtual Assistant’ for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0
For most Ubuntu users, interacting with an AI chatbot means opening your web browser) or (increasingly, your IDE for code-related tasks). Newelle, a GTK4/libadwaita app, offers a different approach — and it just hit version 1.0. Newelle bills itself as a “virtual assistant” for GNOME, but it’s not quite as autonomous as that sounds. You can’t yell “Hey, Newelle” to give it tasks. It’s simply a GUI frontend to LLMs, be it range of synapse-stifling, water-guzzling broligarch LLMs, like Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Groq (not a typo of Grok), etc, or local models you run on your own device in an […]
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