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Perhaps I'm in the minority, but seeing open-source used in the description made me think you were using or providing an openly available LLM in addition to the

Perhaps I'm in the minority, but seeing open-source used in the description made me think you were using or providing an openly available LLM in addition to the chat/search features. Instead it seems this is "merely" (I don't mean to undermine the level of effort involved) using OpenAI's GPT-4 API for its LLM. This sort of reek of a growth mindset where you are using "open-source" for the purposes of looking cool and gaining users, but you are in fact trying to grow as quickly as possible to prove to investors that they should fund you for your next round. I have no reason to believe that's the case for you in particular; just letting you know that some people may perceive things that way. Maybe you could make it clearer that it is a GPT-4 frontend of sorts?

kossTKR 3y ago
No, you're not the minority. This is twitter get-rich-quick-guru level lousy and fake, and is clearly boosted to the top of HN. This stuff is so incredibly tiring, because it's already all over social media and HN should be a safe space with actual products.
- kristiandupont 3y ago
  Jeez, take it easy with the unwarranted hostility!. I get that you disagree with using OpenAI's APIs but clearly this is an "actual product" in every sense of the word and not some snake oil.
sabaimran 3y ago
1. Khoj has been around since early 2021, and both of us have been contributing to open source for several years. Being open source for a project like this just makes sense. 2. Search actually is 100% offline. It's using sentence transformer models from huggingface. 3. Chat uses OpenAI's model only because they're currently best in class (and easy to set up). Our plan (more of a 6-month view) is to have our own open source LLM hosted for inference. See issue for reference: https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/issues/201 https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/issues/201

kossTKR 3y ago

No, you're not the minority. This is twitter get-rich-quick-guru level lousy and fake, and is clearly boosted to the top of HN. This stuff is so incredibly tiring, because it's already all over social media and HN should be a safe space with actual products.

kristiandupont 3y ago
Jeez, take it easy with the unwarranted hostility!. I get that you disagree with using OpenAI's APIs but clearly this is an "actual product" in every sense of the word and not some snake oil.

sabaimran 3y ago

1. Khoj has been around since early 2021, and both of us have been contributing to open source for several years. Being open source for a project like this just makes sense. 2. Search actually is 100% offline. It's using sentence transformer models from huggingface. 3. Chat uses OpenAI's model only because they're currently best in class (and easy to set up). Our plan (more of a 6-month view) is to have our own open source LLM hosted for inference. See issue for reference: https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/issues/201 https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/issues/201