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by vmsp 88 days ago
Not directly related to the post but what does OpenUI do? I'm finding it interesting but hard to understand. Is it an intermediate layer that makes LLMs generate better UI?
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Its the library that bridges the gap between LLMs and live UI. Best example would be to imagine you want to build interactive charts within your AI agent (like Claude)

The most obvious approach would be to let LLMs generate code and render it but that introduces problems like safety, UI consistency and speed. OpenUI solves those problems and provides a safe, consistent and token optimized runtime for the LLMs to render live UI

Is it kinda similar to the new GenUI SDK for Flutter in that sense?

https://docs.flutter.dev/ai/genui

Haven't looked in depth but yes it feels like they are solving the same problem.

This is an alternative to json-render by Vercel or A2UI by Google which I'm guessing the flutter implementation is based on