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ClickHouse acquires LibreChat, open-source AI chat platform

https://clickhouse.com/blog/librechat-open-source-agentic-data-stack
49•samaysharma•2h ago

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fishgoesblub•1h ago
Nearly had a heart attack until I re-read it. I thought Libera Chat[0] was acquired

[0] https://libera.chat/

arccy•1h ago
I was wondering how it could acquire something that was formed as a reaction against freenode getting acquired...
tuhgdetzhh•29m ago
History repeats itself. I wouldn't be suprised.
afavour•1h ago
The part I suspect most are here for:

- LibreChat remains 100% open-source under its existing MIT license

- Community-first development continues with the same transparency and openness

of course, no binding commitment to any of that in the long term.

tuhgdetzhh•25m ago
Yup, they will of course try to profit long-term, ClickHouse is not a charity project.

Within the next few years, it will introduce an additional enterprise edition, a SaaS offering, or a change in licensing terms.

ryadh•1h ago
Ryadh from ClickHouse here, happy to answers questions if folks have any.

So, why this move ?

Basically, we noticed that the existing "agentic" open-source ecosystem is primarily focused on developer tools and SDKs, as developers are the early adopters who build the foundation for emerging technologies. Current projects provide frameworks, orchestration, and integrations The idea behind the Agentic Data Stack is a higher-level integration to provide a composable software stack for agentic analytics that users can setup quicky, with room for customization.

redwood•46m ago
Cool so your bet is that chat is essentially the new interface for BI... or ad hoc analytical inquiry... which opens up more dynamic BI... instead of asking an analyst in a slack conversation who then goes and runs a bunch of data pulls and munging, it's all handled agentically and a response is brought back to the user.. one thing is for sure: Tableau needs to be disrupted so happy to watch this one play out!
ryadh•11m ago
It actually comes from our own experience at ClickHouse. We deployed internally 8 months ago, and since very few people here have touched our legacy BI systems :) I have never seen an adoption curve like this one tbh. It's obviously not perfect and can hallucinate sometimes, which can be tricky, but with the right approach and awareness in place, the value it delivers is massive. What really happens is that more users get access to data instantly, and as a result, we make better, data-driven, decisions overall.

My favourite use-case: our sales and support folks systematically ask DWAINE (our dwh agent) to produce a report before important meetings with customers, something along the lines of: "I'm meeting with <customer_name> for a QBR, what do I need to know?". This will pull usage data, support interactions, billing, and many other dimensions, and you can guess that the quality of the conversation is greatly improved.

My colleague Dmitry wrote about it when we first deployed it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bi-dead-change-my-mind-dmitry...

sdesol•45m ago
Full Disclosure. I am the author of https://github.com/gitsense/chat

> The idea behind the Agentic Data Stack is a higher-level integration to provide a composable software stack for agentic analytics that users can setup quicky, with room for customization.

I agree with this. For those who have been programming with LLM, the difference between something working and not working can be a simple "sentence" conveying the required context. I strongly believe data enrichment will be one of the main ways we can make agents more effective and efficient. Data enrichment is the foundation for my personal assistant feature https://github.com/gitsense/chat/blob/main/packages/chat/wid...

Basically instead of having agents blindly grep for things, you would provide them with analyzers that they can use to search with. By making it dead simple for domain experts to extract 'business logic' from their codebase, we can solve a lot of problems, much more efficiently. Since data is the key, I can see why ClickHouse will make this move since they probably want to become the storage for all business logic.

Note: I will be dropping a massive update to how my tool generates and analyzes metadata this week, so don't read too much into the demo or if you decide to play with it. I haven't really been promoting it because the flow hasn't been right, but it should be this week.

yawnxyz•30m ago
This is really cool; does this mean Danny gets a salary to work on his open source project; would you consider this a "sponsorship" or would he have other jobs within ClickHouse / have a manager etc?
ofrzeta•26m ago
What does it mean to acquire an open source project?
tylerhannan•5m ago
(disclaimer: I work at ClickHouse)

At its simplest the team who was building that rad thing called LibreChat, now works at ClickHouse and build that rad thing called LibreChat.

Even simpler, the LibreChat team works at ClickHouse and are now my colleagues.

More complex, acquisitions can take a variety of "forms"...most importantly in these scenarios (and now I speak without knowledge of the deal structure) is making sure the team is paid, that copyright/trademark stuff is worked out, that OSS plans are discussed, and that everyone is excited to work together.

joshstrange•14m ago
LibreChat was my favorite open source frontend/backend for interacting with LLMs. I know ClickHouse says it will stay that way but I find this acquisition odd to say the least. The overlap seems tenuous at best and I worry this will be abandoned along the way. I hope I'm wrong but the whole thing just is odd, a database acquiring an open source AI tool?
elaus•10m ago
Yeah that's really bad news.

I too have LibreChat deployed for my personal use and now the only question is how long until it will inevitably be enshittified/monetized.

Must feel even worse for volunteers who worked on the project but don't get any benefit from the aquisition.

ryadh•4m ago
(Ryadh from ClickHouse here)

It's a fair concern, and I understand where you are coming from. What I can say is that it's not our first rodeo incorporating another OSS product in our family. I tried to summarize it in the post:

> "This proven playbook is the same one that we applied when joining forces with PeerDB to provide our ClickPipes CDC capabilities, and HyperDX, which became the UX of our observability product, ClickStack."

If you research both instances above, the result is that these projects got more traction and adoption overall.

I hope this helps! and thank you for using LibreChat

tylerhannan•10m ago
A database in isolation is meaningless.

Rather, people have to ask questions of it, and interact with the data. Increasingly, that is via AI tooling.

We've had a long-standing demo at llm.clickhouse.com (librechat, bedrock, anthropic).

(disclaimer: work at ClickHouse)

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