The Analytics Engineering Podcast - Bring Your Own Data to LLMs (W/ Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex)

Bring Your Own Data to LLMs (W/ Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex)

08/25/23 • 42 min

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Jerry Liu is the CEO and co-founder of LlamaIndex. LlamaIndex is an open-source framework that helps people prep their data for use with large language models in a process called retrieval augmented generation. LLMs are great decision engines, but in order for them to be useful for organizations, they need additional knowledge and context, and Jerry discusses how companies are bringing their data to tailor LLMs for their needs.

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The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.

For full show notes and to read 6+ years of back issues of the podcast's companion newsletter, head to https://roundup.getdbt.com.

The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.

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