RanaEngine Developer Beta: Democratized AI Supercomputing for Free

It is with great excitement that the Rana Team is able to announce the Developer Beta version of RanaEngine, now with Local API access for all and Remote API access for subscribers. This new feature allows RanaEngine supercomputing clusters to act as a drop-in replacement for popular AI API services, by providing open-source AI and ML text and image models compatible with the following APIs:

• Ollama/ChatGPT Text Generation
• DALL-E Text-to-Image Generation
• DALL-E Image-to-Image Generation

These new features allow developers to begin utilizing industry standard programming interfaces to integrate Rana into research and development tasks, automated AI workflows, and content production pipelines. Generate, analyze, or refine documents and images programmatically, at scale, and without needing to rent cloud GPU resources, allowing your home lab or small business to scale compute capacity without scaling your costs. As always, RanaEngine is free and unlimited for non-commercial use to help democratize AI supercomputing for the world.

What is Rana?

Rana’s architecture empowers end-users to build AI supercomputing clusters on the devices that they already own, keeping both user data and AI computing private on their own systems and out of 3rd-party clouds.

By using RanaEngine, there is no need to purchase or refill expensive computing token balances, wait in line for access to cloud GPUs, or even to spend time configuring or administering complex AI server stacks. Instead just launch the web app, load a model, and start immediately creating with AI.

With no installation needed, Rana runs entirely in modern web browsers, keeping AI environments safely sandboxed away from other programs and data, protecting both users and software integrity without compromising AI capabilities. All that is required is browser support for WebGPU, a standardized method of hardware acceleration free from proprietary restrictions that runs on all modern graphics processors regardless of vendor.

Rana is also designed for collaboration, with built-in private user-to-user features, making it easier than ever to share your creations with others or to collaborate and remix shared creations together in groups.

Rana Features

Rana was created with the intention of helping to catalyze the next-generation of the Web, by unlocking the capabilities of the “Browser as an Operating System”, creating Universal Web Apps instead of proprietary native apps, and demonstrating the power and importance of both Peer-to-Peer Networks and Local-First Software. Here is what makes Rana different, and why it matters:

• All user data stays private on your own devices, instead of being uploaded into the cloud. This respects user privacy, prevents surveillance, and keeps personal data away from 3rd-parties who may try to sell it, use it for AI model training, or worse.
• RanaEngine runs on the computer you already own instead of a server in the cloud, with no need to pay for each request or deal with service availability issues (RanaEngine can even run offline once essential data is downloaded).
• By using WebGPU, Rana avoids proprietary hardware acceleration technologies that would otherwise restrict developers and users to a single-vendor solution.
• By using private peer-to-peer networking, copies of essential data are automatically synchronized where and when it is needed without further configuration, on your own devices.
• All AI and ML models in Rana are open-source and available for developers to download and use in their own applications as well, or by integrating with Rana through an API or data.
• All networking technologies and data storage formats are open and easy to integrate with, preventing lock-in and allowing for simple integration with other software and tools.
• In order for AI agents to properly reflect user values, we are going to have to teach, show, and demonstrate our values to such programs. Rana’s Knowledge Graph is designed to help educate both humans and machines to share knowledge together, socially and collaboratively, and with tools to help improve and refine information into knowledge and beyond.
• It is time for Web technologies to bring communities together again, instead of pushing each other apart. Rana’s social features are designed to respect end-user preferences without needing to enforce one-size-fits-all rules on entire communities. Friendships require consent, and healthy relationships should be supported by our software and tools.

Try Rana Today

Here is how to get started with Rana for free:

1. Launch RanaEngine Web App and build your AI supercomputing cluster.
2. Create a Rana.ai account to unlock additional social features or purchase a commercial subscription.
3. Install RanaBridge to access the free Rana Local API, with Remote API access for Netlords and above.
4. Install Rana for Discord to connect your Rana cluster directly to Discord, for unlimited, free image generation, memes, and a whole lot more.

For commercial usage, please check out our unlimited subscription plans, now with Remote API support: [https://rana.ai/#plans]

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Come join our community on Discord and share your creations, leave us feedback, and let us know what you think. We hope you will join us on our quest to create a better Internet with AI for all!