Hey everyone, I wanted to share my story. This year in February, I came up with some notion (mostly just pissed) that we couldn't use AI models as good as claude locally to design. The fact that they had all this training and design data held behind a wall (which you had to pay for) was super unnatural so I just started learning about AI and wanted to train my own model.
The very first model that I trained, I put it on huggingface and it went trending overnight. It was on the front page right next to DeepSeek etc and people kept asking me who did all that? Was I part of a research group or academic? And I was just like no... just 22 year old with a laptop lol. Ever since then, I used my off hours from my full time job to train models and code software, with the intention of keeping everything open source. (Just angry again that we don't have gpus haha).The future of AI is definitely open source.
Along the way I kept talking to people and realized that AI assisted coding is the future as well, freeing up mental capacity and space to do better things with your time like architecture and proper planning. Technology enabled a lot more people to become builders and I thought that was so cool, until I realized... Not open sourced again. Loveable, Cursor, etc.. Just a system prompt and tools. Why can I not change my own system prompts? Everythings closed source these days. So I built the opposite. My goal is to make coding models that look as good as Claude and a tool to use said coding models.
So I built Tesslate Studio. Its open sourced, Apache 2.0. Bring your own models (llama.cpp, ollama, openrouter, lm studio, Litellm or your own urls), Bring your own agents (you can define the system prompt or tools or add in a new agent with the factory), and bring your own github urls to start with. AI should be open sourced and accessible to everyone. I don't want people changing my system prompts again as well as I would like to choose on my own when I would want to change the prompt for the stuff I'm building.
Each project also gets a Kanban board, notes. You can switch the agent whenever you want and try other people's agents if you have it hosted in a multi user environment. Drop any model in. use any agents with whatever tools you define. I am actively developing this and will continue to improve it based on feedback. The open source project will always be 100% free and I'm definitely looking for contributions, suggestions, issues, etc. Would love to work with some talented engineers.
I have it hosted online for (free, Free GPT-5 and Qwen-coder) at https://tesslate.com using cloud credits until they run out on the 12th of November.
Thank You for taking the time to read this, I appreciate it!
u-mesh•3mo ago
The very first model that I trained, I put it on huggingface and it went trending overnight. It was on the front page right next to DeepSeek etc and people kept asking me who did all that? Was I part of a research group or academic? And I was just like no... just 22 year old with a laptop lol. Ever since then, I used my off hours from my full time job to train models and code software, with the intention of keeping everything open source. (Just angry again that we don't have gpus haha).The future of AI is definitely open source.
Along the way I kept talking to people and realized that AI assisted coding is the future as well, freeing up mental capacity and space to do better things with your time like architecture and proper planning. Technology enabled a lot more people to become builders and I thought that was so cool, until I realized... Not open sourced again. Loveable, Cursor, etc.. Just a system prompt and tools. Why can I not change my own system prompts? Everythings closed source these days. So I built the opposite. My goal is to make coding models that look as good as Claude and a tool to use said coding models.
So I built Tesslate Studio. Its open sourced, Apache 2.0. Bring your own models (llama.cpp, ollama, openrouter, lm studio, Litellm or your own urls), Bring your own agents (you can define the system prompt or tools or add in a new agent with the factory), and bring your own github urls to start with. AI should be open sourced and accessible to everyone. I don't want people changing my system prompts again as well as I would like to choose on my own when I would want to change the prompt for the stuff I'm building.
https://github.com/TesslateAI/Studio
Each project also gets a Kanban board, notes. You can switch the agent whenever you want and try other people's agents if you have it hosted in a multi user environment. Drop any model in. use any agents with whatever tools you define. I am actively developing this and will continue to improve it based on feedback. The open source project will always be 100% free and I'm definitely looking for contributions, suggestions, issues, etc. Would love to work with some talented engineers.
I have it hosted online for (free, Free GPT-5 and Qwen-coder) at https://tesslate.com using cloud credits until they run out on the 12th of November.
Thank You for taking the time to read this, I appreciate it!