Building Your Own Generative Search Engine for Local Files Using Open-Source Models 🧐📂: Part-2
Last Updated on November 3, 2024 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Anoop Maurya
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Hey fellow AI nerds! 🤓👋 Thanks for showing all the love on the first article — it was as heartwarming as finding out your code works. 💻❤️ Now, buckle up your seatbelts and adjust those glasses because we’re diving into the sequel! 🎉 In this chapter, we’re leveling up our generative search engine by adding some visual flair 🖼️✨. Yep, we’re bringing in the LLaVA model for handling images, so now our search engine can think with both its left and right brain. 🧠🎨
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So, here’s the deal: we’ve all been working hard on making our search engine smarter than our professors 🧐🤭, but what if it could also look at pictures and actually know what’s going… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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