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DataStax acquires ‘ incredibly hot ’ Langflow to boost building Gen AI applications
DataStax has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AI startup Logspace – creators of Langflow , an open-source visual framework for building RAG applications .
The combination of Langflow and DataStax offers the potential to create a one-stop Gen AI application stack offering flexible deployment options , including integration with DataStax Astra DB , alongside a rich ecosystem of Python libraries , and integration with partners like LangChain .
The Langflow team will operate independently , focusing on project innovation and community collaboration .
Chet Kapoor , CEO and Chairman , DataStax , said : “ This acquisition is transformative to us and transformative to the industry . Langflow is an incredibly hot AI startup and our work with them will put us front and center for all RAG application development – it ’ s not just a tool or framework , it ’ s a vibrant ecosystem where developers are building , selling and reusing AI components that are going to shape the next generation of AI applications .”
Rodrigo Nader , CEO , Langflow , said : “ With DataStax , we will be fully focused on the execution of our product vision , roadmap and community collaboration and will continue to add to the greatest breadth of integrations across different AI ecosystem projects and products – including more data sources and databases , models , applications and APIs .”
Langflow is pitched as making it ‘ 100x easier and faster ’ for any developer – experienced or new – to build Gen AI applications using Python-based composable building blocks and pre-built components which can be combined in numerous ways .
Matillion delivers pushdown AI platform to unlock the next wave of AI innovation
Matillion has become the first platform to unify pushdown
ELT and pushdown AI to allow data engineers to build Analytics and AI pipelines faster on top of platforms like Snowflake , Databricks and AWS .
Bringing a set of integrated Generative AI capabilities to general availability , Matillion is first to market with a unified pushdown ELT and pushdown AI cloud data integration platform , enabling data teams to become more productive with AI assistance , unlock new unstructured data sources and build new AI pipelines for new business applications such as chat bots .
unstructured data to LLMs . This no-code data preparation for RAG and beyond is currently unique to Matillion .
Matillion ’ s model-agnostic prompt component , now also generally available , enables users to integrate popular LLMs directly within the data pipeline to harness generative AI within data transformations .
The much-awaited Auto-documentation feature is also made generally available , bringing the ability to automatically document notes from actions made within Matillion . p
Ciaran Dynes , Chief Product Officer , Matillion , said : “ The opportunities for applying GenAI to build new use-cases and address long standing data management problems are almost boundless , but many barriers exist to adoption .
“ We believe we have solved many of these challenges , we are seeing customers marry unstructured text with existing data to build new apps and uncover new ways to answer business problems .”
A new RAG component enables users to load data into popular vector stores , including Pinecone , to add private structured and
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