Issue #25 - Friday March 17, 2023
What’s New @ NeuML publishes interesting content covering our open source projects, services and insights.
Lot of exciting developments in this St. Patrick’s☘️ day edition of the newsletter.
Since the last edition, txtai 5.3 and 5.4 were released! Below is a summary of each release.
v5.3.0
This release adds embeddings-guided and prompt-driven search along with a number of methods to train language models
🔎 Prompt-driven search is a big step forward towards conversational search in txtai. With this release, complex prompts can now be passed to txtai to customize how search results are returned. Lots of exciting possibilities on this front, stay tuned.
💡The trainer pipeline now has support for training language models from scratch. It supports masked language modeling (MLM), causal language modeling (CLM) and replaced token detection (ELECTRA-style). This is part of the micromodels effort.
v5.4.0
This release adds prompt templates, conversational task chaining and Hugging Face Hub integration
📃Prompt templates dynamically generate text using workflow task inputs. This enables chaining multiple prompts and models together.
🤗Embeddings now integrate with the Hugging Face Hub! Easily share and load embeddings indexes. There is a full embeddings index available for English Wikipedia.
We’re excited to announce the initial release of txtchat!
txtchat is a framework for building conversational search and workflows.
A set of intelligent agents are available to integrate with messaging platforms. These agents or personas are associated with an automated account and respond to messages with AI-powered responses. Workflows can use large language models (LLMs), small models or both.
See the GitHub project page, YouTube and this article for more!
📄 Articles
Below is a list of recently published or updated articles since last time.
Getting started with semantic workflows
A guide on when to use small and large language models
Embeddings in the Cloud
Load and use an embeddings index from the Hugging Face Hub
Prompt templates and task chains
Build model prompts and connect tasks together with workflows
❤️ Community
Couple really nice items from around the txtai community since last time.
Making and Deploying an AI Web App in 2023
A Complete Guide from 0 to Deployment for AI Web Apps (by Daniel C. Ferreira)
💫 Consulting Support
Need help with your txtai or other NLP projects? NeuML is here to help. Reach out to discuss how we can provide advisory support and/or development assistance.
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