By Rachel Roumeliotis, Director, Open Source Strategy at Intel
On our one-year anniversary we are dropping OPEA 1.3! (See our blog post celebrating the anniversary here.) While it contains lots of new and enhanced capabilities the keyword for 1.3 is AGENTS! OPEA now has advanced agent capabilities including an enhanced framework that features dynamic context-aware dialogues as well as a new FinTech Agent that automates data aggregation and leverages LLMS to generate insights. In addition, vLLM is now the default for most GenAI Examples and Haystack integration is complete.
OPEA Release 1.3 Highlights
You can see the entire extensive list of what is new and enhance here but let’s take a look at some of the major updates.
Enhanced GenAI E2E Examples
- AgentQnA now with web search tool support and simplified run instructions
- EdgeCraftRAG with new UI based on Vue and Ant design, supporting concurrent multi-requests on vLLM, and JSON pipeline configuration
- CodeGen using RAG and Agent: Additional layer of intelligence and adaptability
New GenAI Capabilities
- OPEA Store: Unified data store access API with a data store integration layer
- Struct to Graph: Transform structured data to graphs using Neo4j graph database
- Text to Cypher: Generate and execute cypher queries from natural language for graph database retrieval
New Infra Functionality
- KubeAI Operator for OPEA: Simplified inference ops in cloud environment
Enhanced Evaluation
- TAG-Bench for SQL Agents: Integrated to evaluate complex SQL query generation
- Toxicity Detection Evaluation: Introduced workflow to evaluate toxi language based on LLMs
New Model Compatibility
- Deepseek-R1 various, Deepseek-v3, Hermes-2-Llama-3.1-8B, Granite-3.2-8b-instruct, Phi-4-mini, Phi-4-multimodal-instruct, Mistral-small-24B-Instruct-2501, Mistral-large-instruct-2411
New Observability
- OpenTelemetry Tracing: Enabled tracing for ChatQnA and Agent QnA
OPEA 1.4 to come in Summer 2025!
In closing, be sure to check out our OPEA Week videos that have excellent sessions from our partners Prediction Guard, ByteDance, ArangoDB, Neo4j, and Infosys that cover graphRAG, Agents, and security.
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