DataStax made a reputation for itself by commercializing the open supply Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, however today, the corporate’s focus is squarely on utilizing its database chops to construct a “one-stop GenAI stack.” One of many first constructing blocks for this was to carry vector search capabilities to its hosted Astra DB service final summer time. Since then, it’s constructed out extra of its stack for constructing GenAI functions backed by Retrieval-Augmented Technology (RAG) and at present, the corporate introduced the following cease on this route by asserting that it has acquired Logspace, the corporate behind Langflow, a low-code software for constructing RAG-based functions.
DataStax didn’t share the worth of the acquisition.
Logspace launched in 2022 with a mission to assist companies undertake machine studying. Early on, the corporate was extra of a consultancy than a product firm. Logspace co-founder and CEO Rodrigo Nader beforehand labored on machine studying issues at enterprise AI firm Bitvore, along with co-founder and CTO Gabriel Luiz Freitas Almeida. They self-funded the corporate and by 2023, the founding workforce had launched Langflow, which shortly gained some traction as an early open supply low-code/no-code software for creating GenAI apps.
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“This acquisition will present present Langflow builders and present DataStax builders extra sources and integrations to raise their functions to match the dimensions of their ambitions,” stated Chet Kapoor, CEO and chairman of DataStax. “Langflow is concentrated on democratizing and accelerating generative AI growth for any developer or firm, and in becoming a member of DataStax, we’re working collectively to allow builders to place their wild new generative AI concepts on a quick path to manufacturing.”
The DataStax workforce argues that this acquisition successfully completes its effort to construct a one-stop generative AI stack. In any case, it could actually now supply its customers a single software that mixes built-in connections to DataStax’s personal Astra DB and instruments just like the LangChain toolkit and LlamaIndex for connecting totally different information sources, with an easy-to-use visible editor for constructing GenAI chatbots for inside and exterior use.
Langflow will proceed to function as a separate entity, so present customers shouldn’t discover any instant adjustments.
“We couldn’t be extra enthusiastic about becoming a member of the DataStax workforce and supercharging our capability to develop the Langflow platform, bringing it to extra researchers, builders, enterprises and entrepreneurs engaged on generative AI functions,” stated Nader. “With DataStax, we can be totally centered on the execution of our product imaginative and prescient, roadmap and neighborhood collaboration, and can proceed so as to add to the best breadth of integrations throughout totally different AI ecosystem initiatives and merchandise — together with extra information sources and databases, fashions, functions and APIs.”