A Primer to using LlamaIndex

At its core, LlamaIndex contains a toolkit designed to easily connect LLM’s with your external data. LlamaIndex helps to provide the following:

  • A set of data structures that allow you to index your data for various LLM tasks, and remove concerns over prompt size limitations.

  • Data connectors to your common data sources (Google Docs, Slack, etc.).

  • Cost transparency + tools that reduce cost while increasing performance.

Each data structure offers distinct use cases and a variety of customizable parameters. These indices can then be queried in a general purpose manner, in order to achieve any task that you would typically achieve with an LLM:

  • Question-Answering

  • Summarization

  • Text Generation (Stories, TODO’s, emails, etc.)

  • and more!

The guides below are intended to help you get the most out of LlamaIndex. It gives a high-level overview of the following:

  1. The general usage pattern of LlamaIndex.

  2. Mapping Use Cases to LlamaIndex data Structures

  3. How Each Index Works

General Guides