An AI assistant like Jarvis, minus the movie magic
The closest thing to Jarvis you can use today is an assistant that does four things: acts before you ask, talks with you out loud, lives on your computer, and works inside your real tools. GAIA does all four. It runs workflows on a schedule or when an email arrives, holds voice conversations, sits on your desktop behind a hotkey or a 'Hey GAIA' wake word, and handles email, calendar and tasks across the apps you connect. It will not fly a suit or run your house, and this page is clear about the rest of what it can't do.
What made Jarvis feel real
Strip away the holograms and Jarvis is a short list of behaviours. It noticed things without being asked. It spoke and listened naturally. It remembered context. And it did the work instead of describing how to do it. Most AI assistants manage one of these. Chatbots answer well but wait for a prompt; voice assistants listen but can only set timers and play music.
GAIA is built around that list, which is why people looking for a real-life Jarvis end up comparing it with ChatGPT, Siri and Google Assistant.
It acts before you ask
GAIA's workflows run on their own: on a schedule, or when something happens in a connected tool such as a new Gmail message, a calendar event, a GitHub issue, a Slack message or a Linear ticket. A workflow can triage overnight email into a summary waiting for you at 8am, or turn every email that asks you for something into a todo. Results land in the app or in your chat app of choice, so GAIA reaches you first.
You can talk to it
Voice mode in the web and desktop app is a real spoken conversation, not dictation. Your speech is transcribed by Deepgram and GAIA answers out loud with an ElevenLabs voice, with the same tools and memory as text chat. On WhatsApp and Telegram you can send a voice note instead, and GAIA turns it into text and acts on it.
An AI assistant like Jarvis for PC
GAIA's desktop app runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Press Cmd or Ctrl+Shift+G anywhere to open the assistant popup, or say 'Hey GAIA'. The wake word is detected on your device, so no audio leaves the machine until you start talking to GAIA.
From a desktop conversation GAIA can also use your computer in small, concrete ways:
- Take a screenshot of the screen you are on and tell you what it sees
- Read and write your clipboard
- Open a link in your default browser
- Open an app by name and list your open windows (macOS only, for now)
- Run a browser task in a cloud browser to fill in a form or look something up
It works across your tools and remembers you
Connect Gmail or Outlook, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion, GitHub, Linear, Todoist and more, and GAIA works inside them: drafting and sending replies, creating and moving events, filing tasks. Its long-term memory keeps your preferences and the people around you, so the context builds up the way it did for Tony Stark.
Is there a free AI assistant like Jarvis?
Not from GAIA's hosted service, which is a paid subscription. The code is source-available under the PolyForm Noncommercial license, so you can self-host GAIA for personal, noncommercial use on your own hardware and pay only for the server and the AI model you plug in.
Where GAIA is not Jarvis
- It does not control smart-home devices, cars or anything physical.
- It cannot drive arbitrary desktop apps with your mouse and keyboard; its computer actions are the specific ones listed above.
- It does not make or take phone calls, and it does not control your phone.
- It needs an internet connection. There is no offline mode.
- It does not watch your screen continuously. It takes a screenshot when a conversation needs one.
Common questions
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