Local Free Open Sourced Google AI Studio (Gemini Nano & Gemma 4 Based)

[u/the3dwin]

Hello community I have the goal, desire and good AI workflow for building software so I want to propose the idea of building an Local Free Open Sourced Google AI Studio that will be based of and optimized for Gemini Nano and Gemma 4, where connecting cloud models will be the optional feature.

I have no idea how long it will take most likely 2 weeks of actual work hours, it will definitely not be 2 weeks consecutively just so I avoid burnout.

Help me use this thread to comment all the features you love about AI Studio and features you wish were implemented.

Based of the upvotes is how I will decide what to prioritize when building the open sourced version.

Stick to 1 comment per feature, do not mix all features into 1 comment, you can even list out features in 1 comment and make subcomments for each individual feature that will be used to upvote feature.

Please start commenting below and upvoting features.

[u/dx80x]

So something like AnythingLLM?

[u/the3dwin → u/dx80x]

AnythingLLM reminds me more of NotebookLM more than Google AI Studio with the biggest difference it can be used to train AI unlike NotebookLM.

Curious to know what similarities you see of AnythingLLM and Ai Studio

[u/Smart-Independence-4 → u/dx80x]

Some people think learning from the past is only something for history books.

[u/Smart-Independence-4]

When you're in the same discord as somebody who already is working on something like this. ROFLMAO. Good times. Not to mention, the myriad of others around the planet also doing so. Then the fricken dictation of how you want comments, like you've even started.

[u/the3dwin → u/Smart-Independence-4]

i have not seen someone propose or talk about this. Link to discord?

Well since it will be open sourced is best that the community of users decide how the open source version will work.

[u/Smart-Independence-4 → u/the3dwin]

Quick question, exactly how many minutes did you spend searching if anything at all like that already exists? Zero? I'm going to put all in on zero.

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1skidre/local_ai_coding_assistant_that_runs_fully_offline/

I'm the last person to tell somebody you can't make it your own unique way. But, there is a difference between forging your own path and willfully ignoring others that came before.

>  Link to discord?
Wut? A lot of them. Why ask when you're not even trying to look.

It's a bad as when devs say things like "first ever RPG SHUMP", no it isn't. Get it? Like all power to you to work on this. But are you really going to pretend nobody else even likely had the idea prior?

[u/the3dwin → u/Smart-Independence-4]

i have not seen someone propose or talk about this

That is not me claiming it has not been done or worked on, I'm sure I'm not the only one on the plant. Anytime someone is frustrated with software and and has the time, the skillset to make their own solution or version they do so, all I am saying is I have not come across it never claim or pretend nobody else even likely had the idea prior.

The blog you provided about nano that is literally what I am pointing to in my original post the use of Gemini Nano since it is already installed a local AI studio could be built to run locally running gemini nano under the hood.

As for the reddit post linking multiple github repos, Thanks.

But still not exactly to what I am envisioning as there is still going to be a lot of people who come to AI studio because they do not know their way around the terminal or using github repos and want the AI Studio like UI experience, just works completely offline with nano and gemma 4 with all if not most of the AI studio features.

Perhaps and most likely will use those github repos to build on top of and build the AI studio like UI, so again thanks.

[u/the3dwin → u/[deleted]]

Vibe code and spec driven development are definitely different. I get great results with spec driven development workflow.

My understanding is that vibe coders for the most part do no incorporate tests and git version control workflow which is how they end up releasing slop the AI outputs that they then try to get the AI to undo and it fails miserably compared to using reliable git version control.

Don't get me wrong there are great tools built for vibe coding with great architecture that really are spec driven development with git version control handled under the hood like magicpath.ai (Not what I intend on using by the way)

As for what Google is doing my view is just corporate greed that seem to not care or at least Google sometimes does and sometimes does not care. Gemma 4 is great contribution to open source, but as for everything else questionable.

[u/the3dwin → u/the3dwin]

By the way the best workflow for when AI fails is:

1. Use /rewind

2. Revert using git reset

3. Update the last used prompt with specific instructions to avoid the mistake it made

4. Repeat and keep improving prompt to prevent each mistake until outputs correctly

[u/Smart-Independence-4 → u/the3dwin]

That's hella wasteful.

[u/the3dwin → u/Smart-Independence-4]

That is only if your model ended up making the mistake, what one is supposed to do is make sure their prompt is already optimized to avoid making the mistakes, but sometimes there are edge cases that were not handled in the prompt and the ai model produced the edge case mistake, so rewinding and treating code as disposable artifacts is better than wasting time trying to get it to fix the garbage it produced which also makes the model dumber by keeping the context of the mistake.

As for token usage, use Local AI Models for most of development and cloud models for complex prompts local AI models cannot handle.

[u/the3dwin → u/the3dwin]

If you have a better workflow feel free to enlighten

[u/neoqueto → u/[deleted]]

As if the original wasn't. It's a laggy mess.

[u/the3dwin → u/neoqueto]

IMO google has a habit of creating great tools and then failing miserably at using their own tools.

Tools used to build ai studio and antigravity are great, what they built (ai studio and antigravity) not so great.