ItzCrazyKns/Vane: Perplexica Rebrands as AI Answering Engine — 33.4K Stars

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Perplexica, the popular open-source Perplexity alternative, has rebranded as Vane and reached 33.4K stars. The privacy-focused AI answering engine searches the web via SearXNG, reranks with embeddings, and generates cited responses using local LLMs (Ollama) or cloud providers (OpenAI, Claude, Groq) — all self-hosted with complete search privacy.