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Articles and Documents

Longer reads on how Colibri works and why it is built the way it is. New pieces appear here first and in the newsletter.

Article

Why local, actually?

Most AI tools send your data to a data centre. Colibri does the opposite. What that means for data protection, energy, cost and independence, with answers to the common questions.

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System requirements

Platforms, minimum and recommended hardware for searching and for analysing large archives, disk space and what runs offline.

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