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As of right now, LangChain is the easiest-to-use and most popular software library for composing LLM-powered systems together. The funding will help the team m
by cs702 4y ago
As of right now, LangChain is the easiest-to-use and most popular software library for composing LLM-powered systems together.
The funding will help the team make it into a polished product.
In particular, I expect LangChain will start offering prebuilt hosted services that developers can use as components for building third-party apps.
Congrats to the LangChain team!
- capableweb 4y agoMoney != polish, money means they now need to find a way of earning money from it. This is sometimes how FOSS goes to die.
- riku_iki 4y agothis is a seed round, the goal is to get growth, and after series C/D/E expectation will be to get into profitability.
- sharemywin 4y agobut you have to at least have a monetization strategy right?
- riku_iki 4y agoConsulting, paid plugins.
- sebzim4500 4y agoMaybe a managed solution, too.
- WalterSear 4y agoFYI: the signup link on your home page leads to the about page instead.
- riku_iki 4y agoSorry, which home page, I don't have any )
- WalterSear 4y agoDoh, I thought you were from LongChain.
- capableweb 4y agoMeaning, bait-and-switch users by all means necessary (but after series C). I'm really looking forward to it.
- visarga 4y agoThis one is right in the middle of the action - the plugin market. It is the Android to OpenAI's iOS. Everyone needs a second option.
- thequadehunter 4y agoAnother thing people seem to forget is that Langchain can use LLMs that aren't made by OpenAI. If OpenAI goes under, or a great open-source model comes onto the scene, Langchain can still do its thing.
- fzliu 4y agoThis is the path forward that I see for Langchain commercialization as well. As we begin to see more and more products built atop LLMs, these hosted services could form the backbone for a lot of those applications. Disclaimer: We - Milvus (https://milvus.io https://milvus.io) and Zilliz (https://zilliz.com https://zilliz.com) - and we have integrations as a vector store in Langchain.