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9 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2022
Jerry Liu made the first commit of the LlamaIndex project on November 1, 2022 and announced it on Twitter on November 8, 2022.
“the 1st commit was on November 1st of 2022. Uh, I posted this on Twitter November 8th of 2022, and I started hacking on LLMs”
2023
LlamaIndex was incorporated in April, raised funding at the end of April, and announced the company in June, according to Jerry Liu.
“it was officially incorporated April, um, and then, uh, did the fundraising like end of April, announced it in June”
2023
Jerry Liu names LangChain and Haystack as other frameworks for building applications on large language models.
“there, besides LlamaIndex, there's also LangChain, there's Haystack, there's a few others”
2023
Jerry Liu estimates that over 75 to 80 percent of LlamaIndex users focus on retrieval augmented generation.
“I would say probably like over 75 to 80 of our users are focused, um, on the RAG use case with LlamaIndex”
2023
Jerry Liu says the LlamaIndex documentation contains over 300 guides.
“Like, for instance, we have over 300 guides in the LlamaIndex”
2023
Jerry Liu says even the best fine-tuning services take at least ten to twenty minutes on a very small dataset, while RAG gives results in about a minute.
“even the best fine-tuning solutions these days take at least like ten to twenty minutes over a very small dataset to give you back anything”
2023
LlamaIndex data agents let developers choose an execution loop such as the ReAct reasoning loop or OpenAI function calling.
“you have your choice of, uh, React, like the, you know, general chain of thought reasoning loop, um, open AI function calling, like a while loop over OpenAI”
2023
The LlamaIndex team refactored and rewrote much of the codebase in April, a rewrite led by co-founder Simon.
“we ended up having to kind of, like, refactor, rewrite a bunch of stuff in April”
2023
Jerry Liu says LlamaIndex had almost 500 community contributions to its open source project and almost 200 to its hub.
“I think we're almost at, like, 500 contributions on on open source, a and then, uh, like almost 200 on on the hub”
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