Agents are the next big thing in him. Some determine these “agents” unlike others, but the general idea is, they are energy tools that can perform autonomous tasks.
Agent Hype has achieved a fever step, but a startup was relatively early for the game: Llamaindex. Founded by former Uber Research scientists Jerry Liu and Simon Suo, in 2023, Llamaindex allows developers to build custom agents on unstable data.
“Llamaindex began as an open toy source project in November 2022,” Liu Techcrunch told. “I was deeply interested in understanding how large language models (LLM) can be used at the top of the owner’s data outside their training group, and built a starting set of tools that enable developers to index and include data in their LLM applications.”
Using the open source software of Llamaindex, which has accumulated millions of downloads to Github, developers can create custom agents that can extract information, generate reports and knowledge, and take specific actions. Llamaindex provides data connectors and services like lamina, which converts unstable data into a structured format that can be used for special applications of it.
While there are other open source frameworks to build he there, Llamaindex is differentiated from his group of swallowing data, data management and data indexing solutions and receipt, Liu said. It can connect data from files like PDF and PowerPoint presentations, as well as applications such as notion and Slack, with an agent.
Salesforce, KPMG and Carlyle are among the companies using Llamaindex Today, Liu said.
“All of these competitive solutions solve specific problems in different parts of the AI generating stack, but then it is the developer’s responsibility to combine fragmented solutions to create a work agent,” Liu added. “This is a considerable point of pain that prevents transport agents in production. Llamaindex made it our mission to provide the safest, correct and easy platform to use for building knowledge agents from bottom to bottom.”
Next chapter of Llamaindex is an enterprise service built at the top of the company’s open source bids. Called Llamacloud, this allows clients to create expected agents from the cloud that can work with it and manipulate the unstable data in a variety of format.
Llamacloud can be set through a software-like installation of a service or in a private virtual cloud, and comes with features including the control of the only role-based access and signature, Liu said.
Partly to help finance Llamacloud development, Lammaindex recently raised $ 19 million in a series A funding rounded by Norwest Venture Partners, and without participation from Greylock as well. The new money brings the total LAMAMINDEX funds raised at $ 27.5 million, and Liu says it will be used to expand the team with 20 people of Llamindex and product development.
“We have enough track to take us through the initial trade expansion of our platform,” Liu said. “We are betting on the future where developers play a major role in distributing Genai applications within the enterprise.”
