LlamaIndex: Use the Power of LLMs on Your Data
Last Updated on July 15, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Janik and Patrick Tinz
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Everyone has been talking about Large Language Models (LLMs). ChatGPT shows the power of this phenomenal technology in an impressive way. LLMs are pre-trained on a large amount of data. We can use it for our data.
But how we best augment LLMs with our data?
In this case, we need a toolkit to help us. LlamaIndex (previous GPT-Index) is well fit for this. It’s a simple and flexible data framework that helps you to connect your data to LLMs. You can connect your unstructured, structured, or semi-structured data sources.
We’ll discuss the following points in this article:
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