Hi. What's your name?

So I know who I'm talking to.

And what should I call myself?

Pick anything — it's how I'll introduce myself from now on.

A few things worth knowing

Everything stays on this computer. No account, no cloud. It even works with the internet turned off.
Organize with projects. The menu (top left) keeps separate chats grouped however you like.
Math is always exact. Arithmetic is calculated directly, not guessed at.
You're in control. Stop a reply mid-sentence, retry it, or copy it — buttons appear right on each message.

What's new

Lantern just got an update

Read this first

Voice needs to leave this computer

Turning speech into text is the one part your browser can't do on this machine yet, so it uses Google's speech service — the same one behind voice typing on most phones and computers.

What you say out loud is sent to Google to be turned into text.
Everything else stays here. The AI's answers are still generated entirely on this computer. Its spoken voice is a separate, independent choice — see "Natural voices" in the same menu if you want that too.
Typing is unaffected. Anything you type stays completely private, exactly as before.

It's sent over a secure connection, and Lantern doesn't store or send anything else. But it's genuinely less private than the rest of Lantern, so it's your call.

Read this first

Natural voices also leave this computer

This is a separate choice from voice recognition. Your computer's own voices sound robotic because that's genuinely what on-device speech synthesis sounds like — natural-sounding voices need real-time cloud processing, the same as Siri or similar assistants.

Lantern's replies are sent to Microsoft to be spoken aloud more naturally.
Your voice is not part of this. Whatever you say out loud is unaffected by this choice, whichever way you set it.
You can turn this off any time and go back to the robotic-but-fully-local voices.

Sent over a secure connection, nothing stored beyond that. Turn it on only if sounding natural matters more to you than keeping replies fully local.

Listening…

Lantern

Checking…

Chats

Model

Replies slow? Try ollama pull llama3.2:1b. Got a strong PC? Try ollama pull llama3.1:8b. Anything you download through Ollama shows up here automatically.

Persona / instructions

Experimental features

Enable experimental features

These are half-finished and may not work on every computer. Turning this off hides them again — nothing breaks either way.

Voice conversation

Talk out loud and hear replies back. On most computers this sends your speech to Google to transcribe — you'll see the details before it turns on.

New conversation

Hey there.

This one's just yours — nothing you say here ever leaves this room.