AI Starter Kit
Summary: Neon AI Starter Kit is the central hub for building AI and vector search applications on Lakebase Postgres on Neon, collecting concepts, framework integrations, and deployable starter apps in one place. Use this page when starting an AI project on Neon and need to orient across pgvector setup, RAG pipelines, semantic search, or scaling strategies before diving into a specific guide. Supported frameworks include LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, and Inngest; app types covered include RAG chatbots, hybrid search, reverse image search, and text-to-SQL.
AI Starter Kit
Section titled “AI Starter Kit”Resources for building AI applications with Lakebase Postgres on Neon
Build AI applications and agents on Neon. This guide collects resources for AI workloads: core concepts, starter applications, framework integrations, and deployment guides. Use them to build applications like RAG chatbots, semantic search engines, or custom AI tools.
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Getting started
Section titled “Getting started”Learn the fundamentals of building AI applications with Neon:
- AI concepts: Learn the fundamentals of embeddings and vector search for AI applications
- pgvector extension: Get started with pgvector for storing and querying vector embeddings
AI frameworks and integrations
Section titled “AI frameworks and integrations”Build AI applications faster with these popular frameworks, tools, and services:
- LangChain: Create AI applications using LangChain with OpenAI and Neon
- LlamaIndex: Build RAG applications using LlamaIndex with OpenAI and Neon
- Semantic Kernel: Develop AI applications using Semantic Kernel with Azure OpenAI
- Inngest: Build reliable AI workflows with Inngest and Neon
- app.build: Generate and deploy web applications using the open-source app.build agent
Starter applications
Section titled “Starter applications”Hackable, fully-featured, pre-built starter apps to get you up and running:
- AI chatbot (OpenAI + LllamIndex): A Next.js AI chatbot starter app built with OpenAI and LlamaIndex
- AI chatbot (OpenAI + LangChain): A Next.js AI chatbot starter app built with OpenAI and LangChain
- RAG chatbot (OpenAI + LlamaIndex): A Next.js RAG chatbot starter app built with OpenAI and LlamaIndex
- RAG chatbot (OpenAI + LangChain): A Next.js RAG chatbot starter app built with OpenAI and LangChain
- Semantic search (OpenAI + LlamaIndex): A Next.js Semantic Search chatbot starter app built with OpenAI and LlamaIndex
- Semantic search (OpenAI + LangChain): A Next.js Semantic Search chatbot starter app built with OpenAI and LangChain
- Hybrid search (OpenAI): A Next.js Hybrid Search starter app built with OpenAI
- Reverse image search (OpenAI + LlamaIndex): A Next.js Reverse Image Search Engine starter app built with OpenAI and LlamaIndex
- Chat with PDF (OpenAI + LlamaIndex): A Next.js Chat with PDF chatbot starter app built with OpenAI and LlamaIndex
- Chat with PDF (OpenAI + LangChain): A Next.js Chat with PDF chatbot starter app built with OpenAI and LangChain
Scale your AI application
Section titled “Scale your AI application”- Scale with Neon: Learn how to scale your AI application with Autoscaling and Read Replicas
- Optimize vector search: Best practices for optimizing vector search performance
Featured examples
Section titled “Featured examples”Real-world AI applications built with Neon that you can reference as code examples or inspiration.
Tip: Built something cool?
Share your AI app on our #showcase channel on Discord.
- AI vector database per tenant: Deploy an AI vector database per-tenant architecture with Neon
- Guide: Build a RAG chatbot: Build a RAG chatbot in an Astro application with LlamaIndex and Postgres
- Guide: Build a Reverse Image Search Engine: Using LlamaIndex with Postgres to Build your own Reverse Image Search Engine
- Ask Neon Chatbot: An Ask Neon AI-powered chatbot built with pgvector
- Vercel Postgres pgvector Starter: Enable vector similarity search with Vercel Postgres powered by Neon
- YCombinator Semantic Search App: YCombinator semantic search application
- Web-based AI SQL Playground: An AI-enabled SQL playground application for natural language queries
- Jupyter Notebook for vector search with Neon: Jupyter Notebook for vector search with Neon, pgvector, and OpenAI
- Image search with Neon and Vertex AI: Community: An image search app built with Neon and Vertex AI
- Text-to-SQL conversion with Mistral + LangChain: A Text-to-SQL conversion app built with Mistral AI, Neon, and LangChain
- Postgres GPT Expert: Blog + repo: Create and publish a custom Postgres GPT Expert using OpenAI's GPT
Vector search tools and notebooks
Section titled “Vector search tools and notebooks”Optimize your vector search implementation and experiment with different approaches:
- Vector search optimization: Best practices for optimizing vector search performance
- Vector search notebooks: Interactive notebooks for vector search with OpenAI
- Google Colab guide: Use Neon with Google Colab for ML experiments
- Azure Data Studio Notebooks: A cloud-based Jupyter notebook service integrated with Azure Data Studio
Related docs (Core concepts)
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