How LangChain turns GenAI into a genuinely useful assistant

Using LangChain, programmers have been able to combine ultrasound imaging for things such as breast cancer diagnosis with a ChatGPT-style natural language prompt.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

The generative AI movement of OpenAI's ChatGPT and its derivatives is perhaps best known for bad rap lyrics and automated programming assistance. But a new open-source framework riding on top of large language models is bringing a more practical focus to GenAI.

LangChain, just over a year old, is what you could think of as a gentle introduction to programming AI agents through a very simple set of libraries riding on top of GenAI models. The technology is supported by a venture-backed startup of the same name, which offers a server platform for commercial deployment of apps constructed with LangChain. 

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