marvin VS the-algorithm

Hey HN! We just released Marvin 2.0.

Marvin is an AI toolkit for developers who want to use LLMs with traditional software. We still see significant challenges integrating LLMs because of how difficult it is to get them to reliably accept and return structured data. Marvin consists of independent, functional tools that address this problem in a variety of ways.

Marvin has always been focused on using LLMs to work with native Python datatypes and Pydantic models. In 2.0 we've expanded this significantly with dedicated APIs for the most common use cases we've seen over the last year: classification, entity extraction, transforming data to types, and generating synthetic data. Marvin 2.0 is also fully multi-modal and supports images as inputs for classification, extraction, and transformation tasks (as well as simple image and speech generation). We've also introduces a Pythonic interface to OpenAI's assistants API, which now powers all of Marvin's interactive components.

We've tried to make an LLM framework that "sparks joy" and captures that same feeling you had the first time you saw an LLM in action. Try it out and let us know what you think!

(Repo: https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin)

Seems a lot like https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin?

The prompting you do seems an awfully like:

https://www.askmarvin.ai/prompting/prompt_function/

You can try the decorator ai_fn in marvin https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin

Marvin: a batteries-included library for building AI-powered software. Marvin's job is to integrate AI directly into your codebase by making it look and feel like any other function (https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin)

Sure! I was inspired by this Python library: https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin

I see Langchain has support for Azure chat models, and Marvin is built on Langchain so it may not be so difficult! Tracking issue here: https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin/issues/189

We have a related issue open (https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin/issues/64) but haven't designed anything yet.

> Wasn’t the tweet recommendation system “open sourced” as well? Does this guy know the difference between open source and “open source”?

What do you mean? There exists only one binding definition of open source

> https://opensource.org/osd

and either some product does satisfy it, or it doesn't. As far as I am aware

> https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

does satisfy the open source definition, so your sarcasm looks demagogical to me, but I am very willing to learn something new.

I'm not a Twitter user so if this is a dumb question I apologize.

This sounds like a pretty serious allegation. How do you know this is true? Is it in the source code?[1]

[1]: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

There is already a bug report for this: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1876

There is a way for Meta to fuck this up. The Algorithm is licensed under GPL, which is a copyleft license. That means any derivative works based on it must also be licensed and open sourced under GPL. If Meta doesn't do that, they may be on the hook.

And I believe the source for that was effectively opened up to the world: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm