HAWKI gives students, teaching staff and employees of a university access to current AI language models without each person having to sign licence agreements with a provider. It is developed as an open-source project at HAWK and supported by a community of more than 90 universities.
What HAWKI offers:
- a chat interface with a choice of open and commercial models, including locally hosted ones
- group rooms in which contexts, prompts and files are shared
- PDF, Word and image files as context for the model
- a programming interface with individual keys for users
Models are accessed via the university’s server; inputs do not go directly from users to external providers. Where and how the computation takes place is decided by the operating university.