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What is Onyx

Onyx (formerly Danswer) is the AI platform connected to your company’s docs, apps, and people. Onyx provides a feature rich Chat interface and plugs into any LLM of your choice. Keep knowledge and access controls sync-ed across over 40 connectors like Google Drive, Slack, Confluence, Salesforce, etc. Create custom AI agents with unique prompts, knowledge, and actions that the agents can take. Onyx can be deployed securely anywhere and for any scale - on a laptop, on-premise, or to cloud.

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Feature Highlights

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Deep research over your team’s knowledge

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Use Onyx as a secure AI Chat with any LLM

See LLM configuration options here

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Easily set up connectors to your apps

Check out all of the connectors here

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Access Onyx where your team already works

Set up Onyx Bot in Slack, directions here

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Other Notable Benefits of Onyx

• Custom deep learning models for indexing and inference time, only through Onyx + learning from user feedback.
• Flexible security features like SSO (OIDC/SAML/OAuth2), RBAC, encryption of credentials, etc.
• Knowledge curation features like document-sets, query history, usage analytics, etc.
• Scalable deployment options tested up to many tens of thousands users and hundreds of millions of documents.

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Roadmap

• New methods in information retrieval (StructRAG, LightGraphRAG, etc.)
• Personalized Search
• Organizational understanding and ability to locate and suggest experts from your team.
• Code Search
• SQL and Structured Query Language

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Deployment

Onyx can also be run locally (even on a laptop) or deployed on a virtual machine with a single docker compose command. Visit the quickstart page to learn more.

Onyx also has built-in support for high-availability/scalable deployment on Kubernetes. Kubernetes manifests and helm charts are available here.