@DanKornas: AI customer support is hard to improve when you can’t measure retrieval or answer quality. Simba is an open-source, sel…
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Simba is an open-source, self-hosted AI customer service assistant that offers customizable RAG pipelines and built-in evaluation metrics for retrieval and answer quality, allowing teams to improve their AI support systems.
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AI customer support is hard to improve when you can’t measure retrieval or answer quality.
Simba is an open-source, self-hosted AI customer service assistant for teams that want control over their RAG stack.
It helps you build and evaluate a knowledge-base assistant by combining a customizable RAG pipeline with retrieval, generation, latency, and conversation metrics.
Key features: • Built-in evaluations – track retrieval precision, recall, relevance, generation faithfulness, answer relevancy, and latency. • Customizable RAG pipeline – swap LLMs, embedding models, vector stores, chunking strategies, rerankers, and parsers. • Website chat widget – add the npm package and connect it to your Simba API instance. • Management dashboard – manage documents, monitor conversations, and analyze performance from one UI. • Flexible setup – run with Docker on CPU or NVIDIA GPU, or install simba-core with pip.
It’s open-source (Apache 2.0 license).
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