v8.0.0

neuml/txtaiv8.0.0Nov 18, 2024by davidmezzetti

AI Summary

This major release introduces txtai Agents for workflow automation and adds Model2Vec vectorization support.

Key Highlights

Add txtai agents 🚀
Add model2vec vectorization
Add agents package to txtai
Add documentation for txtai agents

New Features

txtai Agents (workflow automation)
Model2Vec vectorization
Agents integration in Application and API

Full Release Notes

### 🎉 We're excited to announce the release of txtai 8.0 🎉

_If you like txtai, please remember to give it a ⭐!_ 

8.0 introduces agents. Agents automatically create workflows to answer multi-faceted user requests. Agents iteratively prompt and/or interface with tools to step through a process and ultimately come to an answer for a request. 

This release also adds support for Model2Vec vectorization. See below for more.

New Features
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- Add txtai agents 🚀 (#804)
- Add agents package to txtai (#808)
- Add documentation for txtai agents (#809)
- Add agents to Application and API interfaces (#810)
- Add what's new in txtai 8.0 notebook (#811)
- Add model2vec vectorization (#801)

Improvements
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- Update BASE_IMAGE in Dockerfile (#799)
- Cleanup vectors package (#802)
- Build script improvements (#805)

Bug Fixes
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- ImportError: cannot import name 'DuckDuckGoSearchTool' from 'transformers.agents' (#807)