Does this mean you're winding down your business? Just curious what the motivation to open source this was given this seems like your guy's core value add? Congrats on the launch.
That's a great question. I'll start with a little context: most of the users of our existing hosted platform are no-code/low-code developers who choose us because we're the simplest solution for building what they want to build (primarily because we have end-to-end workflows like Chat built-in). The improved retrieval performance is a nice-to-have for this group, but usually not the primary reason they choose us.
For the larger companies and venture-backed startups we've talked to, they almost universally want to own their RAG stack in-house or build on open-source frameworks, rather than outsource it to an end-to-end solution provider. So open-sourcing our core retrieval tech is our bid to appeal to these developers.
