phidata 2.1.0

AI Toolkit for Engineers

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AI Toolkit for Engineers 🚀

⭐️ for when you need to spin up an AI project quickly.

Phidata is a toolkit for building production-grade AI Applications. It provides:

• Pre-built templates with best practices.
• Classes for building your application: Conversations, Agents, KnowledgeBase, Storage
• Tools for serving your application: FastApi, Django, Streamlit, PgVector
• Infrastructure for running your application: Docker, AWS

🎯 Motivation

Most AI Apps are built as a house of cards because engineers have to build the Software, Application and Infrastructure layer manually. Phidata bridges the 3 layers of software development to deliver production-grade AI Apps that you can run with 1 command.

🚀 How it works

• Create your codebase using a template: phi ws create
• Run your app locally: phi ws up dev:docker
• Run your app on AWS: phi ws up prd:aws

⭐ Features:

• Powerful: Get a production-ready AI App with 1 command.
• Simple: Built using a human-like Conversation interface to language models.
• Production Ready: Your app can be deployed to aws with 1 command.

📚 More Information:

• Read the documentation
• Chat with us on Discord
• Email us at [e-mail]

💻 Example: Build a RAG LLM App

Let's build a RAG LLM App with GPT-4. We'll use PgVector for Knowledge Base and Storage and serve the app using Streamlit and FastApi. Read the full tutorial here.

Install docker desktop to run this app locally.

Installation

Open the Terminal and create an ai directory with a python virtual environment.

mkdir ai && cd ai

python3 -m venv aienv
source aienv/bin/activate

Install phidata

pip install phidata

Create your codebase

Create your codebase using the llm-app template pre-configured with FastApi, Streamlit and PgVector. Use this codebase as a starting point for your LLM product.

phi ws create -t llm-app -n llm-app

This will create a folder named llm-app

Serve your LLM App using Streamlit

Streamlit allows us to build micro front-ends for our LLM App and is extremely useful for building basic applications in pure python. Start the app group using:

phi ws up --group app

Press Enter to confirm and give a few minutes for the image to download (only the first time). Verify container status and view logs on the docker dashboard.

Example: Chat with PDFs

• Open localhost:8501 to view streamlit apps that you can customize and make your own.
• Click on Chat with PDFs in the sidebar
• Enter a username and wait for the knowledge base to load.
• Choose the RAG Conversation type.
• Ask "How do I make chicken curry?"
• Upload PDFs and ask questions

Serve your LLM App using FastApi

Streamlit is great for building micro front-ends but any production application will be built using a front-end framework like next.js backed by a RestApi built using a framework like FastApi.

Your LLM App comes ready-to-use with FastApi endpoints, start the api group using:

phi ws up --group api

Press Enter to confirm and give a few minutes for the image to download.

View API Endpoints

• Open localhost:8000/docs to view the API Endpoints.
• Load the knowledge base using /v1/pdf/conversation/load-knowledge-base
• Test the v1/pdf/conversation/chat endpoint with {"message": "How do I make chicken curry?"}
• The LLM Api comes pre-built with endpoints that you can integrate with your front-end.

Optional: Run Jupyterlab

A jupyter notebook is a must have for AI development and your llm-app comes with a notebook pre-installed with the required dependencies. Enable it by updating the workspace/settings.py file:

...
ws_settings = WorkspaceSettings(
    ...
    # Uncomment the following line
    dev_jupyter_enabled=True,
...

Start jupyter using:

phi ws up --group jupyter

Press Enter to confirm and give a few minutes for the image to download (only the first time). Verify container status and view logs on the docker dashboard.

View Jupyterlab UI

• Open localhost:8888 to view the Jupyterlab UI. Password: admin
• Play around with cookbooks in the notebooks folder.

Delete local resources

Play around and stop the workspace using:

phi ws down

Run your LLM App on AWS

Read how to run your LLM App on AWS here.

📚 More Information:

• Read the documentation
• Chat with us on Discord
• Email us at [e-mail]