Vane (Perplexica 2.0) Quickstart With Ollama and llama.cpp

Vane is one of the more pragmatic entries in the "AI search with citations" space: a self-hosted answering engine that mixes live web retrieval with local or cloud LLMs, while keeping the whole stack under your control. The project was originally known as Perplexica, and the rename to Vane is not cosmetic: it reflects both a branding clean-up and a steady shift away from being framed as "a clone" and toward being a general answering engine. Because the useful part of the stack is not only the...