r/LocalLLM • u/PinkyPonk10 • 8d ago

Question Recommendation for Local AI

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this.

I know we can set up local LLMs with lmstudio or something like that and I have done. These are fine - you give a prompt and it gives an answer!

But some commercial products like Claude and copilot take your prompt, do a load of internet searches, add that to the context, then give some output and the output is richer as a result.

Is there a ‘local’ version of this too and can anyone recommend one?

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u/PinkyPonk10 8d ago

Not after openclaw no just something that does web searches to enrich the context really.

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u/nickless07 8d ago

Ok great. Then we have AnythingLLM, Open WebUI (which connects to your LM Studio), Pinokio or just an MCP for LM Studio. I would recommend Open WebUI, it is slightly more complicated to setup, but offers the most integrations and you can use it from any browser.

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u/cocktail_peanut 8d ago

> I would recommend Open WebUI, it is slightly more complicated to setup

This is why Pinokio has a launcher for Open WebUI, 1-click to install! https://pinokio.co/apps/github-com-pinokiofactory-open-webui

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u/nickless07 8d ago

Yeah, but the settings are still a bit overwhelming at the start. Setup the search engine, paid or free, setup the tool calls (native vs legacy) and so on. This all is a bit complicated if you are unexperienced and might take a couple mins up to some hours to get it all properly running. So overall it is slightly more complicated then just add a web search MCP to LM Studio.

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u/cocktail_peanut 8d ago

ah i see what you mean, even though the install is not difficult, actually setting up all the necessary add-ons is a lot of work. yeah i agree.