Hugging Face's open source chat application, Hugging Chat, is now available for macOS.
Main features
Hugging Chat macOS version has the following highlights.
- Powerful model support: Users have one-click access to several top open-source large language models, including Qwen 2.5 72B, Command R+, Phi 3.5, Mistral 12B, and more;
- Rich functionality: Useful features such as web search and code highlighting are built into the app, with more enhancements to come;
- Totally free: All features are available free of charge with no payment required;
- Well-designed user interface: We've created an intuitive, easy-to-use interface tailored to Mac users to ensure a smooth experience.
- Call out via app shortcuts: Hugging Chat app shortcut is ⌘ + Shift + Return
participate in testing
The Hugging Chat macOS app is currently in beta testing (v0.5.0) and we invite community members to participate and provide valuable feedback. The main tests include.
- Login and bootstrapping process
- Chat features (model selection, response generation, Markdown parsing, etc.)
- Customization options (code highlighting, appearance settings, system themes, etc.)
- performance
Experience it now
We invite all Mac users to download and try the Hugging Chat app. You can get it at the following link.
/huggingface/chat-macOS/releases
Oh yeah, and there are some hidden easter eggs like Macintosh, 404, and Pixel pals themes too oh!
Thank you to our community members for their continued interest and support of Hugging Face! We look forward to your experience with Hugging Chat on your Mac and welcome any feedback to help us improve the product.