Part 1: Understanding RAG Fundamentals & Setting Up Your Environment
RAG Tutorial Using Open Source LLMs, Vector Database, and Curl Part 1
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RAG Tutorial Using Open Source LLMs, Vector Database, and Curl
This series will guide you through building a RAG system from the ground up, using open-source models. Our goal is to avoid vendor lock-in and reliance on third-party SDKs or wrappers, giving you full control and understanding.
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Part 2: Populating Your Vector Database – Embedding and Uploading Data
RAG Tutorial Using Open Source LLMs, Vector Database, and Curl Part 2
Part 3: Searching Your Knowledge – Querying the Vector Database
RAG Tutorial Using Open Source LLMs, Vector Database, and Curl Part 3
Part 4: Generating Answers with LLMs and Enhancing Your RAG System
RAG Tutorial Using Open Source LLMs, Vector Database, and Curl Part 4
Part 5: Creating a working example in PHP and Laravel.
Part 5 : Creating a working example in laravel. We’ve created this example to demonstrate a basic RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) implementation. It uses Laravel/PHP and SQLite, allowing you to run simple RAG queries within the application. Here...