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1 week agoLLMs fuel new generation of natural language query systems
Text-to-SQL tools may simplify data queries but can misinterpret business users' intentions, raising caution for organizations.
Swiggy released Hermes V3, a GenAI-powered text-to-SQL assistant that enables employees to query data in plain English. Hermes operates within Slack, combining vector retrieval, session memory, agentic orchestration, and an explanation layer to generate accurate SQL queries from natural language inputs. Swiggy, an Indian online food ordering and delivery company, initially launched Hermes as a lightweight interface that allowed employees to ask simple questions and receive corresponding SQL queries executed against internal data stores.
The combination is a win for Anthropic's efforts to get its large language models (LLMs) used in enterprises ahead of other providers like OpenAI and Google. It will allow customers in the highly regulated finance and healthcare industries - among others - to deploy agents and then pull answers from across an enterprise's Snowflake instance with greater than 90 percent accuracy on complex text-to-SQL tasks, the companies claimed in the deal announcements published Wednesday.