This is our first interview series and I couldn’t have asked for a better guest other than Jerry Leu, the creator of LlamaIndex. LlamaIndex is a framework that helps you connect Large Language Models with your own data. This is something that opens up a wide range of possibilities that was not possible before. Things like building customer service bots to answer customer queries based on documentation, extracting insights from the huge amount of unstructured data in companies, paring through any source of information like books, videos, podcasts etc thereby accelerating your leanings and many more. And this is reflected in the library's growth rates too. Over the last few months, this framework has been growing at a rate of 200% and does not seem like stopping anytime soon.
This is why I was super excited to talk with Jerry and together we discussed how the project got started, the core concepts behind the framework, the mental models to help you wrap your head around LLMs and augment them with your own data, the teams vision for the project and how you can help out and join the movement!