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Chat Memex

Inspired by the idea of the Memex (Memory-Expansion) developed by Vannevar Bush in 1945, this application uses the OpenAI API and Pinecone vector store to power a citation-rich chat-bot to query against books, podcasts, and articles from some of the world's smartest minds.


Inspired by the idea of the Memex (Memory-Expansion) developed by Vannevar Bush in 1945, this application uses the OpenAI API and Pinecone vector store to power a citation-rich chat-bot to query against books, podcasts, and articles from some of the world's smartest minds.

Chat Memex chatbot interface showing a conversation with citation-backed answers
The Chat Memex interface — ask questions and receive answers grounded in a curated knowledge base of books, podcasts, and articles.
LangChain application architecture diagram showing data ingestion, Pinecone vector store, and OpenAI API integration
Application architecture — LangChain orchestrates data ingestion from multiple sources into Pinecone, with OpenAI powering retrieval-augmented generation.

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