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Cherry Studio Crosses 45.3K Stars: Open-Source AI Desktop Client With 300+ Assistants.

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Cherry Studio ships unified access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, Ollama, and dozens more providers in a single Electron app. Autonomous agent mode, built-in knowledge base, MCP support. It's basically a free, local-first alternative to switching between web interfaces.

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