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Announcing Wolfram Notebook Assistant + LLM Kit

Posted 14 days ago

Wolfram Notebook Assistant + LLM Kit is now rolling out!

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(For Stephen Wolfram's full introduction, see his blog: https://wolfr.am/NotebookAssistant)

Notice: With this new subscription, we're rolling out updates to our notebook interfaces for version 14.1. When your system updates, you'll see new items on your standard toolbar.


We're excited to introduce this product that provides new interfaces for computational AI assistance and also provides LLM access for programmatic uses as well. Over the course of its development we've already found a lot of good (and fun) uses for it and we're sure you'll find many more. Let me give a quick summary of the product's two parts:

The Notebook Assistant is aimed at making working in Wolfram Notebooks easier. It provides context-aware suggestions to streamline your workflow based on the content of your notebook. Whether you're coding or writing, the assistant can help you with tasks such as auto-completing text, suggesting functions, and offering debugging tips.

The Wolfram LLM Kit lets you use Wolfram as your provider, letting you use Chat Notebooks and programmatic LLM functions as simply as possible. You won't need to set up accounts or give your email to third-party providers like Open AI or Anthropic. We take care of all of that.

Who is this subscription really for? If you use Wolfram Notebooks, then there's something in here for you.

  • Its not just for code! Like any good LLM, it can help with writing tasks by completing text or outlining documents. And unlike most, it can understand your data and computations while doing it.

  • If you're just starting with Wolfram Language code, tell the assistant what you're trying to do in plain language and it will help with the first steps toward coding your ideas. It isn't exactly a tutor but it can tell you to functions to use. If you hit problems on the way, it can help find alternatives.

  • If you're a veteran, it can help you by suggesting rarely-used functions or Options that you might not have thought of. It can access the stack while helping you debug your code. You can use the auto-complete to breeze through the drudgery of mundane code sections.

We encourage you to check out Stephen Wolfram's blog and the gallery of examples to get inspired. We can't wait to see how you use these new tools to enhance your creativity and productivity in Wolfram Notebooks. Please share your experiences with the Wolfram Community so we can learn new and different ways to use these tools.

POSTED BY: Bradley Ashby
19 Replies

OK, found the place to get connected. Turns out it is all automatic. Magic!!

POSTED BY: Roger J Brown

Bradley -- I just found out about this and, late on a Saturday before Christmas, I excitedly purchased a year's supply. I have a license number for the product but do not find anywhere to register it. Chat enabled notebooks seem to work as usual. Should I imaging there is enough AI in it to connect my subscription to my license number. That brings up the question: Can I use it on my laptop with my Home License I get from Premier Support?

POSTED BY: Roger J Brown

Bradley I bought the Notebook and it doesn't work. I have been a user since 2,0 at full commercial level and Stephen's minions have asked me to do book reviews for him on Amazon (and I did one on his book on CHATGPT). I have pursued this with the alleged "Premier Service" but what you don't realise is the commercial stuff I disclosed to them. I suggest you get in touch with them. But basically I think Wolfram has lost control of quality control - please pass that on to Stephen (the Premier service people can give you my background ) I would like to see this work but I am not hopeful. Peter

Update: NA wouldn't properly install on my Surface book. The 413 meg index file just did not want to properly extract and I messages which have an active link to GitHub - this had a real beta test vibe to it. After the 3rd attempt the index search term file downloaded and I was able to query. My frustration was doubled because 14.1 will not install on my Imac despite multiple attempts and this is the subject of a ticket.

POSTED BY: Peter Haggstrom

Thanks Bradley. I have been a user of Mathematica since probably 2.0 and I was discussing the potential use of the NA with my oncologist daughter who will be doing some bioinformatics at Cambridge and Stockholm in 2025 as part of her PhD and the NA is just the sort of tool that could help her. By the way, I loved Stephen's warts and all presentation. I'll get playing with Notebook Assistant. Cheers Peter

POSTED BY: Peter Haggstrom

You won't to buy tokens from OpenAI for either level of the Notebook Assistant + LLM Kit product. Instead of using third-party providers, you connect directly to our server and we take care of the rest.

You're correct that we've set the plan limits based on non-industrial strength usage. And yes, you have it right that if you hit those limits, you can still buy Wolfram Service Credits which will allow you to keep going.

POSTED BY: Bradley Ashby

I watched Stephen's introduction to the Notebook Assistant and I will have a play with it. The way it is marketed suggests I don't have to buy tokens from OpenAI for the lowest level of the product. It is USD 240 and that covers what the LLM is doing in the background. I assume you have done a behind the scenes deal based on assumed levels of non-industrial strength usage and if you want to really get serious you buy Wolfram's service credits. Have I got it right?

POSTED BY: Peter Haggstrom
Posted 11 days ago

Wow. My first thought was that the Wolfram Summer School will be dramatically different in 2025. With the Assistant, students can rapidly iterate over a sets of [wholly unexpected] ideas. The overused phrase quantum leap comes to mind...

MIT (and other schools) has held an Integration Bee during IAP for the past 40 years. Maybe MIT's new Schwarzman College of Computing could hold an annual IAP Computation Bee where competitors create a set of computations/visualizations in a set of 3-minute challenges. Creative genius arises from highly-constrained competitions, and participants could could definitely "stand on the shoulders" of their fellow competitors.

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project was launched with Mathematica 6 in 2007 (I found an announcement in the MathWorld Headline News). The Demonstrations Project continues to be an excellent tool for both accessing computational principles and ways to approach computational ideas. At the same time, the Demonstrations Project doesn't sparkle. It looks inwards, but it doesn't pull people from other communities with its vast dazzling capabilities. It also doesn't reflect the vast increase in computational capability available today: multi-core architectures with embedded GPUs and NPUs.

The Wolfram Demonstrations Project could be augmented with the

Wolfram Compelling Computations Project (WCCP).

The WCCP would be a curated list of computations. Each would be introduced by a 4K video; they would be dazzling computations. The computational parts would be available by Computable Document Format files downloadable (and playable) in the Wolfram Player App. The curated notebooks playing in this environment would be an open invitation for students, researchers, and businessmen to leap into the world of AI-generated computation. To borrow from the Cupertino fruit company's marketing, it would be demonstrations of Wolfram Intelligence.

We lack the tools to solve today's problems; we certainly lack the tools to thrive in our complex environment. If there is a "right" way to think about such problems, we don't seem to be thinking that way now.The team at Wolfram Research has made a vast leap to help bridge that gap today. Thank you.

One question I didn't see Stephen address: what impact will the Notebook Assistant have on Wolfram Research's own software development?

POSTED BY: Phil Earnhardt

Great to hear from you, @John ! If you stumble on some neat examples - please share :-)

POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov

The LLM Kit functionality is already available in the cloud. With the subscription you can use LLMFunction and Chat Notebooks in the cloud without configuring any third-party providers.

For Notebook Assistant functionality in the cloud, we make the same advanced computational AI available through Chat Notebooks as long as you're using Wolfram as the LLM Provider. You can ask it the same sort of questions, though it will be using only the current notebook as context. This is available now and we'll also be giving these interfaces more attention in the near future.

POSTED BY: Bradley Ashby
Posted 12 days ago

Very excited. How will this work in the cloud offering?

POSTED BY: Michael Madsen

Well done with this! Within 10 minutes of using Notebook Assistant I was discovering improvements in coding a commercial solution that we're developing. Looking forward to all of the possibilities!

POSTED BY: John Cromwell

You are welcome. It was something close to my heart because internally I was the first person to run across this :-). And the developers were very responsive in getting it fixed as quickly as possible.

POSTED BY: David Reiss
Posted 13 days ago

Thank you. Now it works . I still cannot get my DateListPlot with the sunrise time but it is another issue :-). What is fun is that the assistant produced the code and then corrected it without result. How human this trial, error ... Thanks again for your very fast answer.

POSTED BY: Patrice Turpin

Thanks for bringing this up. We've found the issue and deployed and update that should fix this for you. You can use ResourceFunction["InstallNotebookAssistant"][] to update all of the relevant paclets and then you'll need to restart the app afterward.

POSTED BY: Bradley Ashby

There was a bug which I reported to the developers and I believe they have pushed out an update that should fix this. If you continue to have this issue, you should contact technical support.

POSTED BY: David Reiss
Posted 13 days ago

First try, first error message after having subscribed and relaunched (Wolfram or Mathematica. Who knows now ?) : **The service returned the following error message: Invalid 'tools': \ empty array. Expected an array with minimum length 1, but got an \ empty array instead.** The question was: "produce the code needed to plot the next 10 days sunrise time . On this plot the time should be on the Y axis while the date should be on the X axis . " I must confess that after more than 15 years of using Mathematica I can't get a DateListPlot so I had the insane hope that with an AI .. Funny how difficult sometimes it is to get something rather trivial...

POSTED BY: Patrice Turpin

Impossible not to enjoy the dinosaur story from Stephen :-) A quote from https://wolfr.am/NotebookAssistant

And that reminds me of the very first time I ever saw a computer in real life. It was 1969 and I was 9 years old (and the computer was an IBM mainframe). The person who was showing me the computer asked me: “So what do you want to compute?” I really had no idea at that time “what one might compute”. Rather lamely I said “the weight of a dinosaur”. So, 55 years later, let’s try that again:

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POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov

You shouldn't have any problem accessing our services from Hong Kong. We aren't restricting access there from our side. We also checked and someone in Hong Kong is currently able to reach our systems.

POSTED BY: Bradley Ashby
Posted 14 days ago

Can it be used in Country like Hong Kong ?

POSTED BY: Alan Mok
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