someone just open-sourced their own neuro-sama. and it might be better than the original. it's called airi. a fully autonomous ai companion that speaks with you in real time, joins you in minecraft and factorio, chats through discord and telegram, and comes with a live2d/vrm avatar. runs entirely on your machine. → real-time voice chat and speech recognition → animated avatar with automatic blinking, eye tracking, and idle movements → persistent memory between sessions → local inference through webgpu, no api calls required supports 30+ llm providers, including openai, claude, gemini, deepseek, ollama, groq, mistral, xai, and local models. switch the brain with a config change. uses native cuda and apple metal for real gpu acceleration. 17.5k stars. 101 contributors. 46 releases. completely free. open source.