dify VS towhee

> https://github.com/langgenius/dify/blob/main/LICENSE

everyone is apparently a license pioneer

Xorbits Inference (Xinference) is an open-source platform to streamline the operation and integration of a wide array of AI models. With Xinference, you’re empowered to run inference using any open-source LLMs, embedding models, and multimodal models either in the cloud or on your own premises, and create robust AI-driven applications. It provides a RESTful API compatible with OpenAI API, Python SDK, CLI, and WebUI. Furthermore, it integrates third-party developer tools like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Dify, facilitating model integration and development.

If you are looking to develop QnA or chat based apps then check out https://dify.ai. Do a quick check and see if it fit your requirements. You can integrate it with your app using the apis it provides

As an AI newbie, I used to find coding apps from scratch an absolute nightmare! The learning curve was steep as a ski slope, debugging took endless hours, and developing even a simple AI app nearly drove me insane! But since discovering Dify, it has totally revolutionized my life by enabling app development without any coding skills!

As another commenter noted, Milvus is overkill and a "bit much" if you're learning/playing.

A good intro to the field with progression towards a full Milvus implementation could be starting with towhee[0] (which is also supported by Milvus).

towhee has an example to do exactly what you want with CLIP[1].

[0] - https://towhee.io/

[1] - https://github.com/towhee-io/examples/tree/main/image/text_i...

The description of this is kind of confusing but I think the easiest way to understand it is that it is a data processing pipeline of sorts. Take unstructured data and apply transformation and computation. A similar project to this is Towhee (https://github.com/towhee-io/towhee). This project tries to simplify unstructured data processing and provides pretrained models and pipelines from their hub.

Milvus also has incredible flexibility when it comes to choosing an indexing strategy, and we also have a library specifically meant to help vectorize a variety of data called Towhee (https://github.com/towhee-io/towhee).

Benchmarking the models with towhee is as simple as:

The project's homepage is https://github.com/towhee-io/towhee, and you can find more about towhee by going through the documents.

I made a tutorial for building an image search engine with python. The code example is as simple as 10 lines of code, using Towhee and Milvus To put images into the search engine:

Traditionally, I've done this through PyTorch by adding a hook, but this requires knowledge of the model itself (i.e. model arch and layer names). I found https://github.com/Hironsan/awesome-embedding-models but it didn't provide many CV-focused open-source projects. There's also https://github.com/towhee-io/towhee which is great but more targeted towards application development.

You can check the result from the tutorial.