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Introduction

Welcome to AI-VERDE, an open source platform that facilitates access to commercial and on-premise LLMs with budget and access controls. AI-VERDE stands for "AI Virtual Explorer for Research, Discovery, and Education". There are two pieces to AI-VERDE, the AI-VERDE chat interface and the AI-VERDE API (application programming interface).

Our chat interface provides you with an interactive, AI-powered assistant designed to enhance your learning, research, and teaching experiences. Using language models from commercial providers and CyVerse's on-premise infrastructure, this interface allows you to engage with an advanced AI assistant capable of answering questions, offering explanations, and assisting with various tasks in real time.

Key Features

  • Interactive Q&A: Simply type your question, and the assistant will provide clear, concise answers on a wide range of topics.
  • Designed for small teams and courses: Use AI-VERDE for small teams, labs, and courses.
  • Bring Your Own (BYO) LLM: Instructors and team leads can optionally bring their own commercial or third-party LLM to AI-VERDE or use CyVerse's on-premise LLMs.
  • Built for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Instructors and team leads can optionally configure AI-VERDE to provide answers strictly from source documents.
  • Budget management and cost savings: If you're using commercial services, tokens cost money. Use AI-VERDE to control model access, with budgets for each course or team and per individual (budgets are set by CyVerse on request).
  • Built-in Guardrails: Ensure the responsible, safe, and effective use of AI-VERDE within your team and course.