# h2o — Vendor Intelligence Profile
> Source: Vedex (https://vedex.ai) | Generated: 2026-10-05T08:35:25.892Z

## Overview

- **Vendor Type**: data_provider
- **Headquarters**: USA
- **Year Founded**: 2012
- **Employee Count**: 87
- **Description**: Query and summarize your documents or just chat with local private GPT LLMs using h2oGPT, an Apache V2 open-source project.
Private
offline database of any documents
(PDFs, Excel, Word, Images, Video Frames, YouTube, Audio, Code, Text, MarkDown, etc.)
Persistent
database (Chroma, Weaviate, or in-memory FAISS) using accurate embeddings (instructor-large, all-MiniLM-L6-v2, etc.)
Efficient
use of context using instruct-tuned LLMs (no need for LangChain's few-shot approach)
Parallel
summarization and extraction, reaching an output of 80 tokens per second with the 13B LLaMa2 model
HYDE
(Hypothetical Document Embeddings) for enhanced retrieval based upon LLM responses
Variety
of models supported (LLaMa2, Mistral, Falcon, Vicuna, WizardLM. With AutoGPTQ, 4-bit/8-bit, LORA, etc.)
GPU
support from HF and LLaMa.cpp GGML models, and
CPU
support using HF, LLaMa.cpp, and GPT4ALL models
Attention Sinks
for
arbitrarily long
generation (LLaMa-2, Mistral, MPT, Pythia, Falcon, etc.)
UI
or CLI with streaming of all models
Upload
and
View
documents through the UI (control multiple collaborative or personal collections)
Vision Models
LLaVa, Claude-3, Gemini-Pro-Vision, GPT-4-Vision
Image Generation
Stable Diffusion (sdxl-turbo, sdxl) and PlaygroundAI (playv2)
Voice STT
using Whisper with streaming audio conversion
Voice TTS
using MIT-Licensed Microsoft Speech T5 with multiple voices and Streaming audio conversion
Voice TTS
using MPL2-Licensed TTS including Voice Cloning and Streaming audio conversion
AI Assistant Voice Control Mode
for hands-free control of h2oGPT chat
Bake-off
UI mode against many models at the same time
Easy Download
of model artifacts and control over models like LLaMa.cpp through the UI
Authentication
in the UI by user/password via Native or Google OAuth
State Preservation
in the UI by user/password
- **Domain**: h2o.ai
- **Contact Email**: sales@h2o.ai
- **Company Website**: https://h2o.ai

## Categories & Sectors

- **Categories**: AI & ML, Machine Learning, Other

## Marketplace Presence

- **Source Platforms**: alternativedata_org, datarade, snowflake_marketplace
- **Platform Count**: 3
- **Delivery Methods**: API

## Intelligence Scores

- **Vendor Score**: 38.3
- **Market Presence**: 29.8
- **Integration**: 40
- **Business Maturity**: 25.6

## Competitors

- **Competitors**: Overtone, SoundPrint, StageZero, WayWithWords

## Links

- Vedex Profile: https://vedex.ai/vendor/h2o-882c1d
- Due Diligence: https://vedex.ai/due-diligence/h2o-882c1d