3.0 Release Notes for the genaiPlatform package.

We are pleased to announce version 3.0 of the Genai Platform Plugin. This provides key Generative AI capabilities through the package genaiPlatform. The documentation for this package is available here. This release supports C3 AI Platform version 8.7. We also expect to be releasing versions with the same APIs to support Platform version 8.8.

The 3.0 release adds support for parsing/chunking of unstructured documents with GenaiCore.Unstructured.Processor and GenaiCore.Unstructured.Job, as well as an out-of-the-box integration with the C3-maintained mew3 library for multi-modal extraction. Further details about the new features and changes in this release are available in the changelog.

Upgrade/Compatibility Notes:

• The py-llm runtime has been upgraded to gain access to more LLM features and to fix newly discovered security issues. It is recommended to re-resolve all runtimes that inherit from py-llm.
• Several entity types have been modified to be SeedData in addition to entity. If there were any instances of the following types in the /data/ directory in your app, then those must be moved to the /seed/ directory in your app.
  • GenaiCore.Tool
  • GenaiCore.Toolkit
  • GenaiCore.VectorStore
  • GenaiCore.SessionStore.Kv
  • GenaiCore.Embedder.Hf
• GenaiCore.Embedder.Hf has been updated with the following security notice:
  • When selecting embedding models from Hugging Face, avoid Python Pickle (e.g. .pkl) formatted models. The Pickle format is inherently insecure and it may be possible to create malicious models using that format. Instead use the Safetensors format, which does not have this issue. Most of the popular embedding models on Hugging Face are available in the Safetensors format. If you must use a Pickle-formatted model, please ensure that it has been scanned with a model security tool first. Hugging Face includes a scanning tool, and files they host which have been scanned are marked with a "Safe" tag.