Building with GenAI

Challenges, Learnings & a Bit of News from the Builders of Quivr.app

New features and learnings from the team at Quivr and news from across the exciting world of Generative AI.

Last week at Quivr

• Last week in Numbers

  • 4 Releases 🚀

  • 11k users on the demo 👀

  • 6 contributors this week 🙏

  • 19.1k stars 🌟

• New Features and Improvements

  • Implemented Streaming (thanks to Harrison Chase and Nuno Campos for helping us out with it 🤩)

  • Brain management -> Easily share brains and settings.

  • Started migration away from Supabase 😎

Demo: Quivr.app - Source Code: GitHub

New OSS Tool Announcement 🎉

Genoss GPT

One line GPT application portability with the Genoss model gateway. Check out the article we released about Genoss in collaboration with LangChain 🙌

TL;DR: GenossGPT offers a universal interface for interacting with GPT models, simplifying the task of integrating and switching between models in your GenAI-powered application. It gives businesses control over their model usage, while leveraging LangSmith to provide enhanced observability and analytics in production. 👀

You can find the code [here] 🚀

Learnings from the week

• Stan - Sensei: We tried to be compatible with many different types of LLM from the start. This complicated our backend and resulted in Quivr having a bad UX 😒 We’ve created a new project called Genoss that takes the complexity away 😜Now we have a simple application that has streaming and is awesome to use.

• Zineb - Chief Dev: X (Twitter) got people talking about super apps. At Quivr, we have also been exploring creating a simple yet powerful app, a smart virtual assistant in one sleek interface 🦢 Raises some interesting questions: How realistic is it? And how well is this new trend going to be accepted by users? 🤷

• Mamadou - Frontend Wizard: UX truly matters 👌🏼 A great project with poor UX will struggle to achieve the desired reach. Developing a product that evolves constantly is challenging. The architecture should be modular, not only to accommodate new features but also to facilitate the removal of bad ones 😇

• Matt - Backend Dude: A project with no marketing remains a side project and can never reach any critical mass of users to self-sustain 🤩 As a dev, I have always avoided that side of open-source but learning to embrace it has opened up many more, doors 🚪

• Chloe - Product Maestro: A project is never set in stone with just one version. It's all about staying cutting-edge, sparking debates, embracing feedback, and constantly refining. 🙌 We're on a non-stop journey, not resting on laurels, constantly challenging our own ideas. Together, we'll go the extra mile and unlock extraordinary possibilities 🔥

• Brian - Methodology King: On holiday 🌴

• Daniel - Feedback Warrior: On holiday 🌴

News from the World of Gen AI

• 📣 Mckinsey just released The state of AI in 2022—and a half decade in review. Super interesting - Load it into your brain and you can chat with it with Quivr as Stan does here.

• 🧪 This article by Fabien Zucchet about tackling non deterministic testing with for Generative AI apps is one of the most interesting things I’ve read on the topic. Definitely worth checking out 😇

• 👀 OpenAI has applied for a trademark for GPT-5, the next version of its large language model. The trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office describes GPT-5 as "downloadable computer software" for tasks like natural language processing, text, and speech generation, understanding, and analysis, including translation and transcription.

• 😬 Meta is gearing up to launch AI-powered chatbots, called "personas," on Facebook and Instagram as soon as next month. How do you feel about this? 🤯