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Use the AI on this computer

If your computer is up to it, Jean offers a brain that runs on it, under Free in Settings › Brains › Add a brain: On this device. It downloads once, about 3 GB, and from then on nothing it answers leaves this computer. It’s free and works offline, with simpler, slower answers than the cloud’s.

Show me in JeanOpens Jean at the right place and points at each button. It changes nothing by itself.

What you need

  • A computer, not a phone or a tablet, with about 12 GB of memory or more.
  • A recent graphics chip that your browser lets a page use. Chrome and Edge do on most recent computers.
  • About 3.6 GB of free room, for a download of about 3 GB, once.

Steps

  1. Open Settings, from the menu with your name (or “You”), at the foot of the task list, then Brains, and press Add a brain.
  2. Under Free, choose On this device. If it isn’t there, this computer can’t run one: see what it needs above.
  3. Press its button to download it. You can keep using Jean meanwhile: until it’s ready, any other brain you have answers.
  4. Once it’s ready, Jean says The brain on this device is ready. From then on, Auto sends it anything personal, and everything while you’re offline.
  5. To have every request answered here, choose Keep on this device under Who answers, in Brains.

Good to know

  • The first time, One step before I answer offers it beside OpenRouter, as Also get a private brain for this computer: it downloads while OpenRouter answers, and Auto then has both.
  • Under an answer it wrote, Jean says Kept private.
  • Each browser keeps its own download: in another browser on this computer, it downloads again.
  • Settings › Your data › Space used shows the room it takes.
  • If the tab ever crashes while it loads, this browser stops offering it and deletes the download, to free the room.

If it doesn’t work

On this device isn’t offered

This computer lacks one of the three things it needs: the memory, a graphics chip the browser can use, or the room. Try Chrome or Edge, or free some room. Otherwise, a brain in the cloud answers instead: see Start free with OpenRouter.

The download stopped

The connection dropped, or the browser ran short of room. Press its button again.

Its answers are slow

It works on this computer’s own chip, which is slower than a service’s. With a brain in the cloud as well, Auto keeps this one for what’s personal and gives the rest to the cloud: see Choose the AI that answers.

Still stuck?

Ask Jean in your own words, for instance: Can this computer run a brain of its own?

If that doesn’t help, write to arnaud@jean.is.

See also