Swifties get an enchanted UI that knows everything about the pop star

DataStax, the company that powers generative AI applications with real-time, scalable data has announced the launch of SwiftieGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that knows everything about Taylor Swift. Timed with the award-winning artist’s 34th birthday today (Dec 13th), SwiftieGPT provides Taylor Swift fans, better known as “Swifties,” with access to any publicly available data via a conversational bot that knows Taylor all too well.

Powered by the DataStax Astra DB vector database, the retrieval augmented generation (RAG) chatbot leverages a combination of cutting-edge generative AI and JavaScript technologies to provide fans with an experience that will leave them breathless – just think of all the fun things they can do.

SwiftieGPT pulls publicly available data about Taylor Swift from across the web. That data is split into small, semantically meaningful chunks using a document transformer on LangChain, and using new embedding models from Cohere, the content is turned into vectors, which are stored in Astra DB. Created using the Astra Assistants API, the chat experience is built using Next.js, and the website is published to Vercel.

“This is a perfect example of a simple, RAG-powered chatbot, built with Javascript, and powered by DataStax Astra DB,” states Carter Rabasa, vice president, developer relations, DataStax. “Javascript developers are experimenting and building AI agents and chatbots like this across the board, and we wanted to have a little fun showcasing the power of Astra DB, with style. I expect we’ll be seeing many more use cases moving into the new year, as developers get more and more comfortable with this new technology.”

Swift’s birthday is also being celebrated by TidalWave Comics which has released Female Force: Taylor Swift with multiple covers. Also, Swift, who is celebrating the biggest tour of all time as The Eras Tour surpasses $1 billion in gross sales, is also gifting fans an extended version of her concert film of the same name, available now at digital streamers.