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kani (カニ) is a highly hackable microframework for tool-calling language models. (NLP-OSS @ EMNLP 2023)

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Build chat applications that can call external tools using language models.

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kani (カニ) is a highly hackable microframework for tool-calling language models. (NLP-OSS @ EMNLP 2023)

kani has 609 stars on GitHub. It has been forked 31 times. kani is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2023. kani is available under the MIT license. Its main topics are chatgpt, framework, function-calling, gpt-4.

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kani (カニ) is a highly hackable microframework for tool-calling language models. (NLP-OSS @ EMNLP 2023)

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kani is an open-source project. It is released under the MIT license.

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Yes. kani is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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kani is available under the MIT license.

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kani is written mainly in Python.

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