Survival LLM runs an offline emergency assistant on a local PC
Original title: Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
It picks among Nemotron, Qwen and Granite models by memory and cites FEMA, CDC and other local sources.
Survival LLM is a free, open-source assistant and emergency library that runs entirely on a Mac or Windows PC and needs no internet after setup. It answers from local references, including FEMA and CDC guidance, medical texts and about 930,000 Wikipedia articles, and highlights the passage used. The app selects a model by available memory, from NVIDIA Nemotron and Qwen builds down to IBM Granite 4.2 8B. The publisher’s blind test on an earlier library build scored larger models 21 of 22 on blackout and first-aid questions.
Unconfirmed: Accuracy figures are the publisher’s tests on an earlier library build, not an independent evaluation.
- Full library is a 9 GB download, about 19 GB installed; without Wikipedia and iFixit it is 1.3 GB.
- Supported systems are Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 14 or newer and 64-bit Windows 10 or 11.
- Setup takes about 20 minutes to 2.5 hours, mostly downloading.
- Users can add local PDFs, Word files, ebooks and notes for search.
- A measured MacBook Pro used about 100 W for 5 to 40 seconds per answer.
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Survival LLM is a free AI assistant and emergency library that runs entirely on your own computer. Ask it how to keep food safe in a blackout, treat a burn, or purify water, and it answers from trusted sources and shows you exactly where each answer came from.
By Luc · brangus.io
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