LlamaIndex Newsletter 2025-08-19

Hi there, Llama Enthusiasts! 🦙

Welcome to this week's edition of the LlamaIndex newsletter! We're excited to bring you updates including GPT-5 integration with LlamaParse, knowledge graph generation tutorials for legal documents, multimodal AI applications, powerful new integrations with AstraDB and TypeScript support. Check out these developments along with our guides and tutorials to maximize your use of these new features.

If you haven't explored LlamaCloud yet, make sure to sign up and get in touch with us to discuss your specific enterprise use case.

🤩 The Highlights:

• Legal Knowledge Graph Tutorial: Transform unstructured legal documents into queryable knowledge graphs using LlamaCloud and Neo4j. Complete workflow from PDF extraction to rich relationship mapping between parties, locations, and contract terms. Tutorial
• Hybrid RAG + Text2SQL Router: Build intelligent agentic workflows that route between SQL databases and vector search based on user queries. Includes query classification, format conversion, and response evaluation. Implementation
• Multimodal Market Research AI: Create applications that analyze both text and images for market research and surveys, processing visual data like charts, graphs, and product images in unified pipelines. Notebook

🗺️ LlamaCloud And LlamaParse:

• GPT-5 is now available in preview with LlamaParse, showing promising results for accuracy and cost with enhanced table and visual recognition capabilities. Sign up
• LlamaExtract now available in TypeScript SDK with a complete Research Extractor demo built with Next.js for uploading and structuring research papers. GitHub Repo
• AI-powered vibe coding tutorial showing how to transform LlamaExtract agents into Streamlit web apps using Cursor for rapid development from scripts to production applications. Example
• Transform dense enterprise documents into intelligent AI agents that can reason and calculate across complex documents like banking disclosures and rate agreements. Tutorial

✨ Framework:

• New AstraDB integration as a data sink in LlamaCloud for seamless vector storage and retrieval with enterprise-grade scalability and metadata filtering support. Integration Guide
• Web-scraping AI agents tutorial with Bright Data integration, showing how to build agents with reliable web access and dynamic content handling capabilities. Walkthrough
• Complete AI stock portfolio agent tutorial using CopilotKit's AG-UI protocol for seamless frontend-backend communication with real-time interactions and Human-in-the-Loop functionality. Implementation Guide
• Claude AI now supports search results as content blocks, bringing natural citations to agent applications with proper source attribution integrated into LlamaIndex. Documentation

✍️ Community:

• SkySQL case study demonstrating hallucination-free SQL generation using LlamaIndex agents for accurate natural language to SQL conversion across complex database schemas. Case Study
• 11x AI case study showing how they built Alice, the AI SDR, using LlamaParse for multi-modal document ingestion to shrink SDR onboarding time to days. Case Study
• Financial document reader tool by Marcus Schiesser that transforms complex financial reports into plain English with AI-powered analysis and customizable experience levels. Tool

Thank you for being part of our community! We can’t wait to see how you leverage these new features and updates. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to reach out!

Best,
The LlamaIndex Team