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AI · September 18, 2023

Simon

AI search: data + a postgres instance + 10 lines of code.

Simon launched on September 18, 2023 with 2 votes.

What it does

Simon is a Python library that powers your entire semantic search stack: OCR, ingest, semantic search, extractive question answering, textual recommendation, and AI chat. All open source (Apache 2.0), all on a Postgres instance.

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