Mai-with-u
Mai-with-u is an open-source project/community centered on MaiBot (MaiSaka), an LLM-based interactive agent designed to feel like a real participant in conversations rather than a conventional task-oriented assistant. It focuses on natural dialogue, group-chat participation, long-term memory and personality modeling, imitation of community language, and extensibility through plugins.
At a Glance
- Open-source developers and AI-agent hobbyists
- QQ group owners and online communities
- Self-hosters seeking a private LLM companion
- Plugin and adapter developers
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AI Tools by Mai-with-u
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MaiBot
Open Source Group Chat Agent
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Latest News
MaiBot v1.3.7 released; plugin tools gained per-tool platform scoping, runtime restart behavior was refined, and WebUI/plugin-market updates continued.
MaiBot v1.3.6 released with plugin image-context resolution, cancellable plugin downloads, richer plugin WebUI pages, and improved plugin-market rankings and recommendations.
MaiBot v1.3.5 released with plugin-loading and dependency-conflict improvements plus plugin-author search, update dates, and editable/anonymous plugin ratings in the marketplace.
MaiBot v1.3.4 released with additional plugin, WebUI, and configuration improvements.
Products & Services
The core open-source LLM interactive agent/QQ bot framework: a conversational digital lifeform with natural dialogue, group-chat participation, memory, personality modeling, learning of local language, and a plugin/API system.
Web-based administration console for configuration, chat, memory and knowledge-base inspection, emoji/media management, plugin installation and updates, monitoring, and model management.
An adapter component for connecting MaiBot to NapCat/QQ; it is listed by the official Mai-with-u GitHub organization as part of the ecosystem.
The MaiBot plugin repository and in-product plugin marketplace/ecosystem, supporting installation, updating, version selection, author search, ratings, and plugin-developed UI components.
Market Position
MaiBot differentiates itself from conventional helpful assistants and feature-first chatbots by explicitly optimizing for human-like presence, warmth, imperfection, group-chat timing, memory, and evolving social language. It competes in the self-hosted open-source conversational-agent and chat-bot-framework space, while its QQ-first orientation, GPL-3.0 licensing, plugin ecosystem, and integrated WebUI are central positioning points.
Leadership
Founders
SengokuCola
The project’s official design-philosophy page attributes the founding vision and project origin story to SengokuCola. The associated GitHub profile lists Beijing Normal University; the profile is also the primary maintainer account shown on MaiBot releases.
Founding Story
According to the official project page, MaiBot began as an attempt to add a few features to the NiuNiu bot. As the code and ideas grew, the project was rewritten with the goal of creating a life-like presence in QQ group chats—not a feature-maximized bot, but something that feels human and real. Its guiding principle is ‘most like [a person], rather than best.’
Business Model
Revenue Model
MaiBot is distributed as a GPL-3.0 open-source project and the official documentation states that it is completely free to use. The project’s public model is community/open-source distribution rather than paid subscriptions or an API metering service.
Pricing Tiers
GPL-3.0 licensed MaiBot and its public documentation; users supply and configure their own model providers and deployment infrastructure.
Target Markets
- Open-source developers and AI-agent hobbyists
- QQ group owners and online communities
- Self-hosters seeking a private LLM companion
- Plugin and adapter developers
- Researchers and enthusiasts exploring human-like group-chat agents
- VTuber/Bilibili and Minecraft automation communities
- Running an autonomous AI participant in QQ group chats
- Self-hosting a conversational companion with persistent memory and personality
- Building custom capabilities through MaiBot plugins and adapters
- Connecting an LLM agent to QQ and other chat platforms
- Managing models, conversations, memories, and plugins through a browser dashboard
- Experimenting with AI agents in Minecraft or VTuber/Bilibili streaming contexts