Pondhouse Data Blog
DSPy: Build Better AI Systems with Automated Prompt Optimization
Learn how to use DSPy to automate and optimize your LLM prompts. This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to build more reliable AI systems without manual prompt engineering and serves as introduction to DSPy.
What is Libre Chat? The best alternative to Open WebUI and ChatGPT
Looking for an open-source alternative to ChatGPT or Open WebUI? LibreChat offers a versatile, free AI platform that supports multiple AI models like OpenAI, Anthropic or self-hosted ones.. It’s fully customizable, secure, and perfect for self-hosting. Learn in this post how LibreChat stands out as a flexible, privacy-focused AI chat solution.
How to create LLM tools from any Python SDK using langchain-autotools
LLMs can use Tools to interact with other technology, like databases or APIs. Creating such tools however requires to semantically match the semantics of the LLM with the tool. Learn here how langchain-autotools makes this very easy.
How to crawl websites for LLMs - using Firecrawl
Learn how to crawl websites and extract data perfectly prepared for LLM usage. We'll introduce Firecrawl - a powerful tool to crawl websites and extract data from these sites. We'll also demonstrate, how to use Firecrawl in combination with LangChain
Azure AI Studio: How to evaluate and upgrade your models, using the Prompt Flow SDK
Learn how to effectively evaluate and upgrade your AI models using Azure AI Studio and Prompt Flow, making sure that the new model does not introduce any regressions.
RAG, Embeddings and Vector Search with Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery recently got support for vector embeddings. Learn how to use them and how to create embeddings of your texts without leaving BigQuery. No external systems required.
Parsing pdf, word and excel documents with GPT-4o
Learn how to use GPT-4o to parse data from even the most complex of documents - multi-column PDFs, excel documents, tables, and more.
How to classify, describe and analyze images using GPT-4o vision
GPT-4o has phenomenal vision capabilities. Learn how to use the OpenAI API to send images to GPT-4o and use it's vision capabilities to describe the images, label them or provide analytical outputs from them.
What is Open WebUI? The best self hosted, open source ChatGPT alternative?
Open Source, amazing community, with a user-friendly interface, easy setup via Docker or Kubernetes, and advanced features like pipelines and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Open Web UI is a great ChatGPT alternative.