Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and more. Newell v1.0 was released this week for advancing this GNOME AI virtual assistant.

Newelle supports interfacing with the Google Gemini API, the OpenAI API, Groq, and also local large language models (LLMs) or ollama instances for powering this AI assistant. There are a variety of settings too such as whether the program should provide long-term memory of prior conversations, document analysis, and other features.

With the Newelle 1.0 release there is now mini apps support, integrated web browser support, an integrated file editor and terminal, programmable prompts, and a variety of other features.

Those wanting to try out this GNOME AI virtual assistant can do so via Flathub.org and the code is on GitHub . More details on the GNOME program updates this week via This Week in GNOME .