Staff can't code? No prob. Singapore superapp's LLM whips up apps for them

Southeast Asia's Uber-esque superapp, Grab, has developed a tool that allows its employees to build large language model (LLM) apps without coding.

The company this week described the tool, which it calls Spellvault, as empowering "everyone in the company, even those without coding skills," to "create LLM apps that have access to the rich repository of Grab data."

The superapp claimed custom apps can be built in as little as five minutes. It gave two examples of groups that had developed tools. Its insurance division built a chatbot to provide information on policies, inquiries, and claims procedures, and its localization group developed a translation app.

Spellvault operates on the front end through a three-step process. Users start by defining the model's task, such as assessing product initiatives for potential policy risks. Then they upload relevant data into the Knowledge Vault, a repository where Spellvault stores structured information. Finally ...