Pretzel is billed as a modern replacement for Jupyter Notebooks.
It’s a fork of Jupyter with the goal to improve Jupyter’s capabilities. It uses your existing Jupyter extensions, settings and keybindings, to ease migrating over to Pretzel.
It includes AI code generation using GPT-4o by default for its AI model.
This is free and open source software.
Roadmap includes:
- Native AI features similar to Cursor.
- Frictionless realtime collaboration: pair-programming, comments, version history, etc.
- SQL support (both in code cells and as a standalone SQL IDE).
- Visual analysis builder.
- VSCode like code-writing experience using Monaco.
- 1-click dashboard creation from data analysis results.
- End-to-end analysis on datasets for non-data folks.
Website: github.com/pretzelai/pretzelai
Support:
Developer: Pretzel AI
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3

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