# HAWKI *HAWKI is a free, privacy-oriented interface for AI language models, developed at HAWK Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen. Its use at TU Graz is currently on hold.* **Key facts** - **Focus area:** AI for Teaching - **Status:** On hold - **Developed by:** HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts - **Source code:** [github.com/HAWK-Digital-Environments/HAWKI](https://github.com/HAWK-Digital-Environments/HAWKI) 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. ## Further links - [Project page at HAWK (in German) · hawki-info.hawk.de](https://hawki-info.hawk.de/de) - [HAWKI 2 documentation · hawk-digital-environments.github.io](https://hawk-digital-environments.github.io/HAWKI2-Documentation/) - [Source code on GitHub · github.com](https://github.com/HAWK-Digital-Environments/HAWKI)