Your personal news anchor.
On your machine.
Tell Pepper what you care about, in plain words. She researches it around the clock, writes the bulletin with an on-device model, and presents it from her own studio — with her own voice. No cloud, no accounts, no telemetry.
Open source, AGPL-3.0 · Benchmarked, not vibes · Full on-device brain on Apple Silicon
Install — thirty seconds to air
curl -fsSL pepper.software | shpepper startPrefer npm? npm i -g @pepperchan/pepper · Node 18.17+ · everything lives in ~/.pepper · her voice tier: pepper voice install
Tell her your beats
"Watch open-source robotics and GPU prices for me." Plain words in her studio — she works out the rest and starts sweeping the wire every fifteen minutes.
She writes the bulletin
An on-device model turns the wire into a sourced broadcast — vendor claims labeled, rumors kept off the air, nothing invented. Your reading interests never leave the machine.
She goes on air
A 3D newsroom in your browser: chyron, ticker, her designed voice, deep-dive reports on demand — and a one-command export that puts your station on the public web.
Benchmarked, not vibes
Her 2B desk model out-broadcast the best current 4B — blind, ten rounds to two.
MoltBench scores wire-to-report work: grounding, attribution, and adjudication of deliberately contaminated bundles, under blind judges. Pepper's first model failed it — that failure became the release gate. Her current desk model cleared it: +23 grounding points over its own untuned base, 10/12 blind wins against Qwen3-4B-2507, 11/12 against Qwen2.5-7B. Protocol and bundles →
| Model | Grounding | Blind vs pepper-desk |
|---|---|---|
| pepper-desk-e2b (2B active) | 88.6% | — |
| Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 | 88.3% | 2 / 12 |
| Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct | 77.5% | 1 / 12 |
| gemma-4-e2b (her untuned base) | 65.2% | — |
Run a station of your own
Three ways to put a Pepper on the web.
The reference station at pepper.watch — served static from Cloudflare Pages, her voice included.
Run Pepper locally, then pepper export → npx wrangler pages deploy pepper-site. Your beats, your bulletins, your voice files — a complete station from your own desk.
Deploy the station template straight to your Cloudflare account, then feed it from your desk whenever you like.