txtai VS evadb

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

txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.

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.

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.

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 is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.

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).

Hey friends!

We have built an app for getting insights about your favorite GitHub community using large language models.

The app uses LLMs to analyze the GitHub profiles of users who have starred the repository, capturing key details like the topics they are interested in. It takes screenshots of the stargazer's GitHub webpage, extracts text using an OCR model, and extracts insights embedded in the extracted text using LLMs.

This app is inspired by the “original” Stargazers app written by Spencer Kimball (CEO of CockroachDB). While the original app exclusively used the GitHub API, this LLM-powered app built using EvaDB additionally extracts insights from unstructured data obtained from the stargazers’ webpages.

Our analysis of the fast-growing GPT4All community showed that the majority of the stargazers are proficient in Python and JavaScript, and 43% of them are interested in Web Development. Web developers love open-source LLMs!

We found that directly using GPT-4 to generate the “golden” table is super expensive — costing $60 to process the information of 1000 stargazers. To maintain accuracy while also reducing cost, we set up an LLM model cascade in a SQL query, running GPT-3.5 before GPT-4, that lowers the cost to $5.5 for analyzing 1000 GitHub stargazers.

We’ve been working on this app for a month now and are excited to open source it today :)

Some useful links:

* Blog Post - https://medium.com/evadb-blog/stargazers-reloaded-llm-powere...

* GitHub Repository - https://github.com/pchunduri6/stargazers-reloaded/

* EvaDB - https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/evadb

Please let us know what you think!

The discord link seems to be not working. Just a heads up.

The YOLO example on your Github page is super interesting. We are finding it easier to get LLMs to write functions with a more constrained function interface in EvaDB. Here is an example of an YOLO function in EvaDB: https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/evadb/blob/staging/evadb/....

Once the function is loaded, it can be used in queries in this way:

  SELECT id, Yolo(data)

Neat idea, @shishirpatil! We are developing EvaDB [1] for shipping simpler, faster, and cost-effective AI apps. Can you share your thoughts on transforming the output of the Gorilla LLM to functions in EvaDB apps -- like this function that uses the HuggingFace API -- https://evadb.readthedocs.io/en/stable/source/tutorials/07-o...?

[1] https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/eva

Thanks for checking! Currently, we have a Docker image for deploying EVA [1]. We plan to release a Terraform config soon that will make it easier to deploy EVA DB on an AWS/Azure server with GPUs.

[1] https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/eva/tree/master/docker

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