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 talks to you in real time, plays minecraft and factorio with you, chats on discord and telegram, and has a live2d/vrm avatar body. runs entirely on your machine. → real-time voice conversations, speech recognition → animated avatar with auto-blink, eye tracking, idle animations → persistent memory across sessions → local inference via webgpu, no api calls needed supports 30+ llm providers, openai, claude, gemini, deepseek, ollama, groq, mistral, xai, local models. swap the brain with a config change. runs on native cuda and apple metal for real gpu acceleration. 17.5k stars. 101 contributors. 46 releases. 100% free. open source.