GPTCache – Redis for LLMs
Hey folks, As much as we love GPT-4, it's expensive and can be slow at times. That's why we built GPTCache - a semantic cache for autoregressive LMs - atop the vector database Milvus and SQLite. GPTCache provides several benefits: 1) reduced expenses due to minimizing the number of requests and tokens sent to the LLM service 2) enhanced performance by fetching cached query results directly 3) improved scalability and availability by avoiding rate limits, and 4) a flexible development environment that allows developers to verify their application's features without connecting to LLM APIs or…
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Hey folks, As much as we love GPT-4, it's expensive and can be slow at times. That's why we built GPTCache - a semantic cache for autoregressive LMs - atop the vector database Milvus and SQLite. GPTCache provides several benefits: 1) reduced expenses due to minimizing the number of requests and tokens sent to the LLM service 2) enhanced performance by fetching cached query results directly 3) improved scalability and availability by avoiding rate limits, and 4) a flexible development environment that allows developers to verify their application's features without connecting to LLM APIs or network. Come check it out! https://github.com/zilliztech/gptcache
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