Khoj
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)Self-hostable AI second brain that answers from your notes, documents and the web
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Alternative to ChatGPT, Perplexity

Runs multi-step deep research on the web and your documents, producing cited reports
From GitHub, fetched 19 Oct 2026.
Local Deep Research breaks a question into sub-questions, searches the web, academic sources and your own documents, and writes a cited report, using local models through Ollama or cloud APIs. It runs as a web app with encrypted per-user storage.
| Runs with | Docker, Python |
|---|---|
| Docker | Yes The project README documents running it with Docker. |
Sources: github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs with” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.
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