Danswer - OpenSource Enterprise Question-Answering AI System

[jagan]

Danswer allows you to ask natural language questions against internal documents and get back reliable answers backed by quotes and references from the source material so that you can always trust what you get back. You can connect to a number of common tools such as Slack, GitHub, Confluence, amongst others.

https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer

We need an AI tool for Cloudron now!

Check out the Video Demo below:

Features

• Direct QA powered by Generative AI models with answers backed by quotes and source links.
• Intelligent Document Retrieval (Semantic Search/Reranking) using the latest LLMs.
• An AI Helper backed by a custom Deep Learning model to interpret user intent.
• User authentication and document level access management.
• Connectors to Slack, GitHub, GoogleDrive, Confluence, local files, and web scraping, with more to come.
• Management Dashboard to manage connectors and set up features such as live update fetching.
• One line Docker Compose (or Kubernetes) deployment to host Danswer anywhere.

[Kubernetes]

I hope this is the right link?

[Kubernetes]

Looks interesting, will have a look locally first

[Kubernetes]

I did several tries and I have to say it runs far from stable. I was not even able to use it for one single query. Installation with docker compose runs fine and I get the web interfaces, but when I start to configure it, it starts to break. I will stop to work on it.

[robi]

@Kubernetes sounds like the configuration writes files to its code dir, which need to be linked outside to the data dir.

[Kubernetes]

@robi That is not the case, I did install it on a empty cloudron-free VPS

[robi]

@Kubernetes I see, then it's an upstream issue or one might need to pull from master vs whatever release that is less current.

[Kubernetes]

@robi Not sure what you mean, but I did build it from repo source

[robi]

@Kubernetes that answers it.. ty.

[jagan]

This looks very new and recent.
The entire repo appears to be just a few days old.
Just excited by the possibility though, we will keep an eye on this.

[jagan]

Folks, here is a demo by Bookstack on Danswer, and it is very impressive:
Tea Break: 8 Years of BookStack, LLM Connection Demo & Video Hosting

[robi]

@jagan Thanks for sharing.

@girish sounds like a great opportunity to share some of your peertube content with Dan and make sure he knows how self-hosting on Cloudron is easier than he describes.