# oobabooga

> oobabooga is independent TextGen creator and maintainer. TextGen on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-10-27

Independent TextGen creator and maintainer.

oobabooga is the pseudonymous developer of text-generation-webui, a Gradio web interface for running large language models that aims to be the text counterpart of AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion web UI. In August 2023 Andreessen Horowitz gave the developer a grant to support independent work on the project.

## What oobabooga builds

- [TextGen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/text-generation-webui.md), graded E, 45.5/100, in Local AI. Open-source desktop and browser app for running language models on the owner's hardware, formerly text-generation-webui. With `--api` it serves an OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible local API with tool calling, vision, embeddings and image generation. Independent TextGen creator and maintainer, founder, researched 2026-10-27.

## Questions

### Who is oobabooga?

oobabooga is the pseudonymous developer of text-generation-webui, a Gradio web interface for running large language models that aims to be the text counterpart of AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion web UI. In August 2023 Andreessen Horowitz gave the developer a grant to support independent work on the project.

### What does oobabooga make?

Anchor Terminal lists TextGen from oobabooga. Open-source desktop and browser app for running language models on the owner's hardware, formerly text-generation-webui. With --api it serves an OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible local API with tool calling, vision, embeddings and image generation.

### How are oobabooga's tools graded?

TextGen is graded E, 45.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://github.com/oobabooga
- https://github.com/oobabooga/textgen

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