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# Basalam

## Overview
[Basalam](https://basalam.com) is an online marketplace connecting sellers and buyers from various regions, offering a wide range of products including food, clothing, home and kitchen items, handicrafts, health products, and more. The platform emphasizes direct communication between users, fostering a community-driven shopping experience.

## Key Features
- **Product Diversity**: Wide range of categories, from handcrafted items to digital goods.
- **Seller Profiles**: Individual vendor profiles with product listings and customer reviews.
- **Customer Interaction**: Direct communication between buyers and sellers, including reviews and ratings.
- **Secure Transactions**: Ensures safe payments with a 7-day money-back guarantee.
- **Support**: Online and telephone support for customers and vendors.

## AI Team Responsibilities
1. **Development of LLMs and VLMs**: Create and refine large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) to better understand product descriptions and images, improving matchmaking between products and users.
2. **Recommendation Systems**: Develop algorithms to personalize product recommendations for users based on their browsing and purchase history.
3. **Search Optimization**: Enhance the search functionality to return more relevant results using natural language processing and machine learning techniques.
4. **Open Source Collaboration**: Open our results to have a constructive partnership with the open source community.
5. **User Behavior Analysis**: Analyze user interactions to improve the platform’s usability and customer satisfaction.