Shiny for Python adds chat component for generative AI chatbots [Video]

Shiny for Python 1.0 launched this week with built-in chatbot functionality. The Chat() component is aimed at making it “easy to implement generative AI chatbots, powered by any large language model (LLM) of your choosing,” according to today’s announcement. “The ai_model can be anything, but Chat makes it especially easy to use interfaces from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, LangChain, and Ollama.”

Shiny 1.0 can be installed with the Python package manager of your choice, such as

pip install shiny