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AI Chat

AI Chat provides a full-featured chat interface for interacting with large language models directly within ACTIVATE. You can have conversations with AI models from multiple providers, attach files for context, branch conversations to explore different approaches, and share conversations with your team.

Feature may not be available on all platforms

AI Chat requires at least one AI provider to be configured. If you do not see the Chat option in your ACTIVATE account, contact your administrator.

Access Methods

You can interact with AI Chat in three ways:

  • Web UI — Open Chat from the sidebar navigation to use the full-featured chat interface with file attachments, conversation branching, and message history.
  • CLI — Run pw ai chats new to start an interactive chat session from the command line. You can pick a model interactively or specify one directly. See Using the CLI for details.
  • API — Send requests to the OpenAI-compatible API endpoint at /api/openai/v1/chat/completions for programmatic access. Model IDs use the format owner:provider-name/model-name.

Capabilities

  • Multi-provider support — Connect to Azure OpenAI, custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints, or models running on your compute clusters via session tunnels.
  • File attachments — Attach documents, images, and other files to your messages for additional context. Regular files up to 25 MB and documents (PDF, text, CSV, Office files) up to 100 MB are supported.
  • Conversation branching — Edit previous messages or regenerate responses to create conversation branches. Navigate between branches to compare different approaches.
  • Sharing and collaboration — Share conversations with your team for read-only viewing or collaborative editing.
  • Reasoning models — Use reasoning models (such as o1 and o3) that show their thinking process and support configurable reasoning effort.
  • Streaming responses — Responses stream in real time as the model generates them, so you can read output as it arrives.

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