AIRI

AIRI is an open-source attempt to create a 'cyber companion' — an always-on AI character that lives on your desktop or browser, sees what you're doing, talks back in a chosen voice, and can play games with you. The project pairs a Live2D / VRM avatar with a pluggable model layer (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama, vLLM, OpenRouter) and a sense stack that includes microphone capture, screen vision, OBS integration, Minecraft and Factorio agents, and an emotion engine that drives the avatar's animations to match the conversation. AIRI feels closer to a hobbyist's Replika or Neuro-sama than a productivity assistant — it's designed to be a presence rather than a tool — and the community has built dozens of personality presets, fan-art avatars and integration modules. Under the hood it is a TypeScript codebase organised as a monorepo of packages, which makes it relatively easy to swap voices (ElevenLabs, Sesame, OpenAI), backends (local Whisper, Volc) or even add new senses. AIRI is one of the most starred AI character projects on GitHub in 2026 and is a useful reference for anyone building voice-first companion apps or game-aware agents.