Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer

Survival LLM is a free, open-source offline AI assistant and emergency reference library that runs entirely on the user's computer, answering questions from sources like FEMA, CDC, MedlinePlus, WikEM, military survival manuals, wikiHow, iFixit and about 930,000 Wikipedia articles while showing the exact passages used. It selects an AI model based on available memory (from IBM Granite 4.2 8B at 16–31 GB up to NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super at 128 GB or more), requires Apple Silicon macOS 14+ or 64-bit Windows 10/11, and needs internet only during setup. The library is a 9 GB download (19 GB installed), or 1.3 GB (3 GB installed) without Wikipedia and iFixit, and users can also add their own PDFs, Word documents, ebooks and notes for the AI to search locally.