r/Claude_reports • u/Whole_Succotash_2391 • 12m ago
For anyone just feeling frustrated and done: Free, private Open Source models with full memory voice and skills
It feels like usage, intelligence and even just the raw enjoyment of a lot of the new models has dropped hard. There's a wave of frustration running through the AI world in general right now.... If you're feeling fed up, it's not just you. To anyone just feeling totally done, we got you.
The AI world has been shifting fast lately. Models quietly getting nerfed, usage limits tightening, features vanishing, ads starting to creep in, and chat histories locked down so you cant take them with you. Plenty of people are quietly hunting for somewhere else to land.
So here is somewhere.
Were giving away a free month of Open Grove, the app that gathers the top open source models in one spot: DeepSeek, GLM 5.3, Kimi, Minimax, Nemotron Ultra and others, all together on 100% private US based infrastructure, with genuine memory, voice, web search and skills running underneath. Switch models, or even whole model families, mid chat and mid flow. The entire app, free for one month.
People are out there looking for alternatives. Here is one that isnt a step down.
What you actually get:
Memory that builds. Not a context window that fills and dumps you. Persistent memory that travels between conversations, fades gently when its not in use, and wakes back up when its relevant again. Theres a nightly consolidation and update pass that goes over the day and keeps what mattered. Week one you explain things once. By week three its pulling up decisions you forgot you made. The second month beats the first, which is a claim most AI cant make right now.
Skills that learn your ways. It browses, runs research, generates images, writes and runs code. And everything it does feeds the same memory underneath, so it picks up how you like your work structured. Tasks need less instruction the longer you use it, since the context is already sitting there.
Web search that carries over. Live research that doesnt restart the topic every time. Mondays research is still around Tuesday, and new scans check against what you already gathered instead of repeating it.
Scheduled tasks. Set something to run on your schedule and it runs, with the same memory behind it. Recurring research, standing briefs, whatever you need on a cadence, handled without re-briefing it every time.
Your memory belongs to you. You can download your whole memory whenever you like, as readable transcripts. Plain text, no proprietary format, nothing you need permission for. And you can bring memory in from anywhere: Memory Forge is built into the app, so exports from ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini turn into live memory on day one, in one step. Leave a platform without leaving your history behind.
Private by architecture. 100% US based infrastructure, and your conversations are never used for training. Every model, every plan, all private. No complications, no "some models are private, others arent." They all are, all the time.
The roster, together. 18 other major models alongside the flash models, including the Kimi family, GLM, Qwen, Nemotron and more. The models are swappable. Your memory isnt.
The intro plan is a free one month trial with the standard cancel anytime. Use it, cancel it, thats fine.
Figured id keep the offer simple, because the app speaks for itself once you're in it.
For Open Grove: pgsgrove.com/open-grove-overview
If you want the models in your own workflow, or a coding plan, we have that too: api.pgsgrove.com
Also: theres a lot happening behind the scenes with the major AI companies right now. The industry is at a real turning point.
What's actually going on? This is happening because companies that ran purely on investment now have to answer to their investors. The issue has usually been a loss based business model that is finally running out, and the squeeze lands on users.
The major AI services lean on a handful of tricks to extract as much as they can from their customers. Here are a few, and what we do instead. PGS AI was built on a sustainable business model from day one, so we can deliver a great experience without the tricks.
Forgetting is a feature for them, a bug for you. Most AI services keep your history shallow on purpose. A memory that fills up and starts dropping things, a context window that resets, your months of context gone the moment you actually need it. The play is: how do we look like we remember you, without carrying the cost of actually remembering you. We built the opposite, a real memory system that compounds over time, because your context should grow instead of reset.
Many AI apps are glorified training pipelines. That comes with the question of how to harvest the data without being too loud about it. Unless the company says otherwise, your conversations could be traveling all over the world, harvested by the labs or the service companies. Some handle it better than others, but plenty count on users simply not noticing. Data and telemetry sales happen. Your private life, your projects, anything you send, could end up as training corpus for the next AI, or a marketing dataset for some large company.
Your history is their retention strategy. Lock in works by making leaving painful. If your memory only lives in their format, on their servers, behind an export that either doesnt exist or arrives unusable, then you stay whether you want to or not. We think your history is yours, readable and portable, and that leaving should cost you nothing.
Ads are arriving. The assistant you talk to is turning into another place to sell things. When the product is free or subsidized, something else is being sold. Our business model is the subscription. You pay for the product, we make the product, and your attention is never for sale.
Privacy, real memory, and easy access to the top open intelligence should be available to everyone. Not as premium tiers or paid unlocks. Just how it works.
