What is Cellm?
Cellm is an innovative Excel extension tool that integrates large language models (LLMs) into Excel. This integration allows users to call AI models directly within cell formulas to process data. Cellm enhances Excel's capabilities in handling complex text data, making it particularly useful for tasks like classification, extraction, and summarization of text. It supports various popular LLMs including those from Anthropic, Mistral, OpenAI, and Google. Users can also run local models to ensure data privacy.
Key benefits include automating repetitive tasks, saving time, and improving efficiency without needing programming skills. Currently, Cellm is free for users and targets office workers, researchers, and analysts who need to efficiently process text data.
Here’s how to use Cellm:
1. Clone the Cellm project repository to your local machine.
2. Navigate to the project root directory and run dotnet restore to install dependencies.
3. Build the project using dotnet build --configuration Release.
4. Install the generated add-in file through 'File > Options > Add-ins' in Excel.
5. Use the =PROMPT() or =PROMPTWITH() functions in Excel cells to invoke LLMs for data processing.