Let’s Build a RAG Agent Using Phi-Data in Just 20 Lines of Code — Open Source & Local! 🚀
Last Updated on January 3, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Anoop Maurya
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As we wrap up 2024, let’s celebrate the power of AI with one last project for the year: building a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) agent! 🎉 These agents combine the brilliance of large language models with custom knowledge bases, making them incredibly effective at answering questions with pinpoint accuracy. Today, using Phi-Data, an open-source framework, we’ll create a RAG agent in just 20 lines of code! Let’s make it count and start the new year empowered by innovation. Happy New Year to everyone! 🥳
This agent will leverage:
Ollama’s llama-3.2 model for generating responses.Nomic-Embed-Text for creating embeddings.pgvector- as the vector database.
And the best part? It runs locally. Let’s dive in! 🌍
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