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April 30, 2024 37 mins

Join us on this intriguing journey where host Madhukar Kumar uncovers the story of FlowiseAI, an AI-powered chatbot tool that soared to fame in the open-source community. Henry Heng, the Founder of FlowiseAI, shares the inception of FlowiseAI was out of the need to streamline repetitive onboarding queries. Listen in as Henry shares the unexpected explosion of interest following its open-sourcing and how community engagement, spearheaded by creators like Leon, has been pivotal to its growth. The conversation takes a fascinating turn with the discussion of Flowise’s versatility, extending to AWS and single store's creative uses for product descriptions, painting a vivid picture of the tool's expansive potential.

Madhukar and Henry discuss the dynamic realm of data platforms, touching on the integration of large language models into developer workflows and the inevitable balance between commercial giants and open-source alternatives. Henry brings a personal perspective to the table, detailing his use of Fowise for managing property documentation and crafting an accompanying chatbot. Henry also addresses the critical issue of data privacy in enterprise environments, exploring how Flowwise approaches these challenges. The strategy behind monetizing Flowwise is also revealed, hinting at an upcoming cloud-hosted iteration and its future under the Y Combinator umbrella.  Don't miss out on this insightful conversation on how FlowiseAI is revolutionizing GenAI!

Key Quotes: 

  • “What I've experienced is that first you go through the architect. So the architect of companies and the senior teams as well will decide what architecture that we want to go with. And usually, I was part of the conversation as well.  We tend to decide between, NoSQL or SQL depending on the use cases that we are using. For schema that are like fast changing schema or inconsistent, not like tabular structured data, we often use NoSQL or MongoDB. And for structured data, we use MySQL from my previous company. That's how we kind of like decide based on the use cases.”
  • “Judging from the interactions that I have with the community, I would say 80 percent of them are using OpenAI and  OpenSource is definitely catching up but is still lagging behind OpenAI. But I do see the trend that is starting to pick up, like especially you have the MixedRoute, you have Lama2 as well. But the problem is that I think the cost is still the major factor. Like, people tend to go to which large language models has the lowest cost, right?”

Timestamps

  • (00:00) Building FlowiseAI to open source
  • (5:07) Innovative Use Cases of Flowwise
  • (10:15) Types of users of Flowise
  • (19:39) Database Architecture and Future Technology
  • (32:30) Quick hits with Henry

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