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> This is where LlamaParse comes in. We’ve developed a proprietary parsing service that is incredibly good at parsing PDFs with complex tables into a well-struc
by behnamoh 3y ago
> This is where LlamaParse comes in. We’ve developed a proprietary parsing service that is incredibly good at parsing PDFs with complex tables into a well-structured markdown format.
This is my problem with projects that start off as open source and become famous because of their community contributions and attention, then the project leaders get that sweet VC money (or not) and make something proprietary.
We've seen it with Langchain and several other "fake open source" projects.
- siquick 3y agoLlamaParse is proprietary but the main LI package isn’t and you don’t need the former to use the latter. Why shouldn’t they make money? LI is a fantastic way to do RAG.
- zmmmmm 3y agoI don't disagree but I think it's not a question of "why" but "how". It could still be licensed in a restricted way, but keeping secret how it works is unfortunate - it breaks the chain of learning that is happening across the open ecosystem and, if the technique is any good, all it does is force open models to build an actually open equivalent so that further progress can be made (and if it's not really any good then it's snake oil, which is worse). Even if it's great it essentially becomes a dead end for the people who actually need and want an open model ecosystem.