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motorhead
- Motorhead is a memory and information retrieval server for LLMs
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Comparison of Vector Databases
Metal [1] is another one on my radar. Their API looks super simple.
Disclosures: None
[1] https://getmetal.io
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Any Alternatives to Langchain?
Any alternatives? I found this Rust based project that might be interesting: https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead
- RasaGPT: First headless LLM chatbot built on top of Rasa, Langchain and FastAPI
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Langchain question and answer without openai
you could run motorhead on docker https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead
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How to use Enum with Vec to parse the mixed data vector from RedisSearch
The code is found using GitHub search FT.SEARCH inside https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead/blob/main/src/models.rs and adapted.
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Memory in production
All the examples that Langchain gives are for persisting memory locally which won't work in a serverless (statelesss) environment, and the one solution documented for stateless applications, getmetal/motorhead, is a containerized, Rust-based service we would have to run ourselves.
- Show HN: Motörhead, LLM Memory Server Built in Rust
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OpenAI Embeddings API alternative?
I've only just signed up and haven't had a chance to build anything with it yet, but this might be something to consider https://getmetal.io/
- Motörhead – memory and information retrieval server for LLMs
txtai
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What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't
I tend to agree with this sentiment. Many junior devs and/or those in college want to contribute. Then they feel entitled to merge a PR that they worked hard on often without guidance. I'm all for working with people but projects have standards and not all ideas make sense. In many cases, especially with commercial open source, the project is the base of a companies identity. So it's not just for drive-by ideas to pad a resume or finish a school project.
For those who do want to do this, I'd recommend writing an issue and/or reaching out to the developers to engage in a dialogue. This takes work but it will increase the likelihood of a PR being merged.
Disclaimer: I'm the primary developer of txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai), an open-source vector database + RAG framework
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Build knowledge graphs with LLM-driven entity extraction
txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.
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Bootstrap or VC?
Bootstrapping only works if you have the runway to do it and you don't feel the need to grow fast.
With NeuML (https://neuml.com), I've went the bootstrapping route. I've been able to build a fairly successful open source project (txtai 6K stars https://github.com/neuml/txtai) and a revenue positive company. It's a "live within your means" strategy.
VC funding can have a snowball effect where you need more and more. Then you're in the loop of needing funding rounds to survive. The hope is someday you're acquired or start turning a profit.
I would say both have their pros and cons. Not all ideas have the luxury of time.
- txtai: An embeddings database for semantic search, graph networks and RAG
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Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
I agree that in many cases people are puffing their feathers to try to be something they're not (at least not yet). Some believe in the fake it until you make it mentality.
With NeuML (https://neuml.com), the website is a simple HTML page. On social media, I'm honest about what NeuML is, that I'm in my 40s with a family and not striving to be the next Steve Jobs. I've been able to build a fairly successful open source project (txtai 6K stars https://github.com/neuml/txtai) and a revenue positive company. For me, authenticity and being genuine is most important. I would say that being genuine has been way more of an asset than liability.
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Are we at peak vector database?
I'll add txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) to the list.
There is still plenty of room for innovation in this space. Just need to focus on the right projects that are innovating and not the ones (re)working on problems solved in 2020/2021.
- Txtai: An all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search and LLM workflows
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Generate knowledge with Semantic Graphs and RAG
txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.
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Show HN: Open-source Rule-based PDF parser for RAG
Nice project! I've long used Tika for document parsing given it's maturity and wide number of formats supported. The XHTML output helps with chunking documents for RAG.
Here's a couple examples:
- https://neuml.hashnode.dev/build-rag-pipelines-with-txtai
- https://neuml.hashnode.dev/extract-text-from-documents
Disclaimer: I'm the primary author of txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai).
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RAG Using Unstructured Data and Role of Knowledge Graphs
If you're interested in graphs + RAG and want an alternate approach, txtai has a semantic graph component.
https://neuml.hashnode.dev/introducing-the-semantic-graph
https://github.com/neuml/txtai
Disclaimer: I'm the primary author of txtai
What are some alternatives?
lmql - A language for constraint-guided and efficient LLM programming.
sentence-transformers - Multilingual Sentence & Image Embeddings with BERT
NeMo-Guardrails - NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.
tika-python - Tika-Python is a Python binding to the Apache Tikaâ„¢ REST services allowing Tika to be called natively in the Python community.
RasaGPT - 💬 RasaGPT is the first headless LLM chatbot platform built on top of Rasa and Langchain. Built w/ Rasa, FastAPI, Langchain, LlamaIndex, SQLModel, pgvector, ngrok, telegram
faiss - A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.
kor - LLM(😽)
transformers - 🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
Abstract Feature Branch - abstract_feature_branch is a Ruby gem that provides a variation on the Branch by Abstraction Pattern by Paul Hammant and the Feature Toggles Pattern by Martin Fowler (aka Feature Flags) to enable Continuous Integration and Trunk-Based Development.
CLIP - CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining), Predict the most relevant text snippet given an image
rasa-haystack
paperai - 📄 🤖 Semantic search and workflows for medical/scientific papers