I tend to agree with this sentiment. Many junior devs and/or those in college want to contribute. Then they feel entitled to merge a PR that they worked hard on often without guidance. I'm all for working with people but projects have standards and not all ideas make sense. In many cases, especially with commercial open source, the project is the base of a companies identity. So it's not just for drive-by ideas to... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Bootstrapping only works if you have the runway to do it and you don't feel the need to grow fast. With NeuML (https://neuml.com), I've went the bootstrapping route. I've been able to build a fairly successful open source project (txtai 6K stars https://github.com/neuml/txtai) and a revenue positive company. It's a "live within your means" strategy. VC funding can have... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I agree that in many cases people are puffing their feathers to try to be something they're not (at least not yet). Some believe in the fake it until you make it mentality. With NeuML (https://neuml.com), the website is a simple HTML page. On social media, I'm honest about what NeuML is, that I'm in my 40s with a family and not striving to be the next Steve Jobs. I've been able to build a fairly successful open... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I'll add txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) to the list. There is still plenty of room for innovation in this space. Just need to focus on the right projects that are innovating and not the ones (re)working on problems solved in 2020/2021. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Nice project! I've long used Tika for document parsing given it's maturity and wide number of formats supported. The XHTML output helps with chunking documents for RAG. Here's a couple examples: - https://neuml.hashnode.dev/build-rag-pipelines-with-txtai - https://neuml.hashnode.dev/extract-text-from-documents Disclaimer: I'm the primary author of txtai ( - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Isn't there only two open multimodal LLMs, LLaVA and mini-gpt4? Source: 11 months ago

So we use MiniGPT-4 for image parsing, and yep it does return a pretty detailed (albeit not always accurate) description of the photo. You can actually play around with it on Huggingface here. Source: about 1 year ago

We use MiniGPT-4 first to interpret the image and then pass the results onto GPT-4. Hopefully, once GPT-4 makes its multi-modal functionality available, we can do it all in one request. Source: about 1 year ago

But I would like to bring up that there are some multi models(llava, miniGPT-4) that are built based on censored llama based models like vicuna. I tried several multi modal models like llava, minigpt4 and blip2. Llava has very good captioning and question answering abilities and it is also much faster than the others(basically real time), though it has some hallucination issue. Source: about 1 year ago

Https://minigpt-4.github.io/ <-- free image recognition, although not powered by true GPT-4. Source: about 1 year ago