> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs-preprod.sambanova.ai/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# AI Starter Kits

AI Starter Kits are a collection of examples designed to bootstrap application development for common AI use cases. They provide open-source Python code hosted on [SambaNova's GitHub](https://github.com/sambanova/ai-starter-kit/blob/main/README.md) with concepts that can be applied to any programming language. Start with the demos below and be sure to view all of our AI Starter Kits at our [Github repository](https://github.com/sambanova/ai-starter-kit).

<Tip>
  To run these examples, obtain your SambaNova API key from the [API keys and URLs](/en/get-started/api-keys-urls) page.
</Tip>

## Multimodal retriever

Unlock insights from complex PDFs and images. Demonstrates advanced retrieval and answer generation that combines both visual and textual data.

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## Financial assistant

Use large language models (LLMs) to generate complex responses. Demonstrates how to employ multiple agents in a chain to:

* Focus and decompose queries.
* Generate multi-step answers and summarize them.
* Check accuracy.

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  <Card title="GitHub" icon="github" href="https://github.com/sambanova/ai-starter-kit/tree/main/financial_assistant" />
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## Function calling

Enhance your AI applications with powerful function calling capabilities.

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  <Card title="GitHub" icon="github" href="https://github.com/sambanova/ai-starter-kit/blob/main/function_calling/README.md" />

  <Card title="Cloud Demo" icon="laptop" href="https://aiskfunctioncalling.cloud.snova.ai/?_gl=1*1gp09y*_gcl_au*MTEzMjU1OTMwMC4xNzM3NDk0OTEz" />
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## Enterprise knowledge retrieval

Document Q\&A on multiple file formats including PDF, TXT, and DOC. This starter kit demonstrates a sample implementation of a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) semantic search workflow.

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  <Card title="GitHub" icon="github" href="https://github.com/sambanova/ai-starter-kit/tree/main/enterprise_knowledge_retriever" />

  <Card title="Cloud Demo" icon="laptop" href="https://aiskekr.cloud.snova.ai/?_gl=1*nc1u8k*_gcl_au*MTEzMjU1OTMwMC4xNzM3NDk0OTEz" />
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## Search assistant

Expand your application’s knowledge with this implementation of the semantic search workflow and prompt construction strategies. Includes configurable integrations with multiple SERP APIs.

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  <Card title="GitHub" icon="github" href="https://github.com/sambanova/ai-starter-kit/tree/main/search_assistant" />

  <Card title="Cloud Demo" icon="laptop" href="https://aisksearchassistant.cloud.snova.ai/?_gl=1*1w0i9ke*_gcl_au*MTEzMjU1OTMwMC4xNzM3NDk0OTEz" />
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