∗ This is part one of a two part series, please also take a look part two, the Cobus Quadrant of NLU Design.

Langchain is an open-source framework which facilitates the creation of LLM based applications and chatbots. —

Their support for generative AI-powered workflows goes beyond anything seen yet on the market. —

Langchain is an open-source initiative which is addressing one of the pressing issues regarding Large Language Models (LLMs)…and that is managing a conversation. —

What native features does Wolfram NLU have and how can it be utilised? —

Currently everyone is trying to work out how to use LLM implementations in Conversational AI Frameworks…but there are other options with very similar functionality for this specific use-case. —

With fragmentation being forced on frameworks it will become increasingly hard to be self-contained. I also consider the strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats of LLMs. —

The Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service requires registration and is currently only available to Microsoft managed customers and partners. —

This article aims to cut through the hype by considering historic scaling and current trends of existing LLM models. —