I finally tried OpenAI's gpt-oss:120b LLM — and without needing thousands of dollars worth of hardware

Duck.ai using gpt-oss:120b .

I'll admit that until an email dropped into my inbox, I wasn't even aware DuckDuckGo had an AI chatbot akin to ChatGPT on the go. But now I do, and per said email, it's now able to run OpenAI's gpt-oss:120b LLM.

Traditionally an open source model such as this is one you would run locally through a tool such as Ollama or LMStudio, but thanks to DuckDuckGo anyone can use it, use it privately, and for free.