[JasonBorne]

Which open AI would you suggest the layman use?

[pram]

Mistral OpenOrca is about as good as GPT 3.5 imo

https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/Mistral-7B-OpenOrca https://ollama.ai/library/mistral-openorca

[maypop]

For a surprising general purpose local chat experience: OpenHermes 2.5 - Mistral 7B