River
River builds personal AI that individuals own and shape — offering an API and tools to fine-tune and run personalized models locally and in the cloud, with a focus on privacy, ownership, and continual specialization.
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Best for: Personal & Entertainment
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Personal & Entertainment
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River
River is building personal intelligence that individuals own, control, and run themselves. The company focuses on interfaces, models & algorithms, infrastructure, and personal hardware to enable highly personalized, continually learning AI that aligns with a user's values. River provides an API and tooling to fine-tune and train models (LoRA fine-tuning and reinforcement learning) across open-source models ranging from ~35B to 1T parameters, intending to let users bring their data, shape model weights, and own the intelligence they create.
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LoRA fine-tuning
Supports LoRA-based fine-tuning to adapt open-source models to user data and tasks.
Reinforcement learning
Offers reinforcement learning workflows to teach models new skills and turn them into agents.
Wide model support
Runs on a variety of open-source models ranging from approximately 35B to 1T parameters.
Python client and API
Provides a small Python client and an API to fine-tune, train, and deploy personalized models.
Pay-per-token billing
Uses token-based billing (pay per token) for usage.
Personal hardware & infrastructure
Emphasizes personal hardware and infrastructure built for continual specialization at scale.
Pricing
Pay-as-you-go
Pay per token- Token-based billing
Use Cases
Personalized assistants
Create an AI that is customized to an individual's preferences, values, and data so it behaves responsibly and aligned to the user.
Task-specific agents
Teach models new skills and convert them into cost-efficient agents for specific tasks via fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.
Local and private intelligence
Run and own intelligence on personal hardware to maintain ownership of data, models, and compute.
Integrations
Open-source models
Supports fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on a variety of open-source models.
Python client
Provides a small Python client to interact with the API and training workflows.
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Getting Started
- 1 Sign up on the River site
- 2 Explore the API documentation and examples available on the site
- 3 Use the Python client to fine-tune models (LoRA) or run reinforcement learning workflows with your data
Support
docs
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social
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site contact
A 'Contact' link is present on the site (visit the main site for contact entry points).
API
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