Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to publish our 97th Weaviate Podcast on the state of AI-powered Search technology featuring Nils Reimers and Erika Cardenas! Erika and I have been super excited about Cohere's latest works to advance RAG and Search and it was amazing getting to pick Nils' brain about all these topics! We began with the development o…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 96th episode of the Weaviate podcast featuring Letitia Parcalabescu! While completing her Ph.D. studies at the University of Heidelberg, Letitia started her YouTube channel: AI Coffee Break with Letitia! Her videos break down complex concepts in AI with a creative mix of technical expertise and visua…

Hey everyone, thank you so much for watching the 95th Weaviate Podcast! We are beyond honored to feature Dai Vu from Google on this one, alongside Weaviate Co-Founder Bob van Luijt! This podcast dives into all things Google Cloud Marketplace and the state of AI. Beginning with the proliferation of Open-Source models and how Dai sees the evolving la…

As you are graduating from ideas to engineering, one of the key concepts to be aware of is Parallel Computing and Concurrency. I am SUPER excited to share our 94th Weaviate podcast with Magdalen Dobson Manohar! Magdalen is one of the most impressive scientists I have ever met, having completed her undergraduate studies at MIT before joining Carnegi…

Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to publish our newest Weaviate podcast with Kyle Davis, the creator of RAGKit! At a high-level, the podcast covers our understanding of RAG systems through 4 key areas: (1) Ingest / ETL, (2) Search, (3) Generate / Agents, and (4) Evaluation. Discussing these lead to all sorts of topics from Knowledge Graph RAG, to F…

I've seen a lot of interest around RAG for X application domain, Legal, Accounting, Healthcare, .... David and Kevin are maybe the best example of this I have seen so far, pivoting from Neum AI to VetRec! We begin the podcast by discussing the decision to switch gears, the advice given by Y Combinator, and David's experience in learning a new appli…

Voyage AI is the newest giant in the embedding, reranking, and search model game! I am SUPER excited to publish our latest Weaviate podcast with Tengyu Ma, Co-Founder of Voyage AI and Assistant Professor at Stanford University! We began the podcast with a deep dive into everything embedding model training and contrastive learning theory. Tengyu del…

One of the core values of DSPy is the ability to add “reasoning modules” such as Chain-of-Thought to your LLM programs! For example, Chain-of-Thought describes prompting the LLM with “Let’s think step by step …”. Interestingly, this meta-prompt around asking the LLM to think this way dramatically improves performance in tasks like question answerin…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 89th Weaviate Podcast on Matryoshka Representation Learning! I am beyond grateful to be joined by the lead author of Matryoshka Representation Learning, Aditya Kusupati, Zach Nussbaum, a Machine Learning Engineer at Nomic AI bringing these embeddings to production, and my Weaviate colleague, Zain Has…

Jason Liu is the creator of Instructor, one of the world's leading LLM frameworks, particularly focused on structured output parsing with LLMs, or as Jason puts it "making LLMs more backwards compatible". It is hard to understand the impact of Instructor, this is truly leading us to the next era of LLM programming. It was such an honor chatting wit…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 87th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! I am SUPER excited to welcome Karel D'Oosterlinck! Karel is the creator of IReRa (Infer-Retrieve-Rank)! IReRa is one of the most impressive systems that have been built for Extreme Multi-Label Classification, leveraging the emerging paradigm of DSPy compilation! …

Hey everyone! We are super excited to publish this podcast with Vinod Valloppillil and Bob van Luijt on Open-Source AI and future directions for RAG! The podcast begins by discussing Vinod's "Halloween Documents", a series of internal strategy writings at Microsoft related to the open-source software movement! The conversation continues to discuss …

Hey everyone! I am beyond excited to present our interview with Omar Khattab from Stanford University! Omar is one of the world's leading scientists on AI and NLP. I highly recommend you check out Omar's remarkable list of publications linked below! This interview completely transformed my understanding of building RAG and LLM applications! I belie…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the fourth and final episode of the AI-Native Database series with Dan Shipper! This was another epic one! Dan has had an absolutely remarkable career creating and selling a company and now co-founding and working as the CEO of Every! Every is an incredibly future-looking business focused on content onli…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 3rd episode of the AI-Native Database series featuring John Maeda and Bob van Luijt! This one dives into how humans perceive AI, from Anthroaormorphization to Doomsday scenario thinking and how important understanding how AI actually work is to the engineering of these systems. Bob and John discuss t…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the second episode of AI-Native Databases with Paul Groth! This was another epic one, diving deep into the role of structure in our data! Beginning with Knowledge Graphs and LLMs, there are two perspectives: LLMs for Knowledge Graphs (using LLMs to extract relationships or predict missing links) and then…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the first episode of AI-Native Databases with Andy Pavlo! This was an epic one! We began by explaining the "Self-Driving Database" and all the opportunities to optimize DBs with AI and ML at both the low-level, as well as how we query and interact with them. We also discussed new opportunities with DBs +…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the Weaviate 1.23 Release Podcast with Weaviate Co-Founder and CTO Etienne Dilocker! Weaviate 1.23 is a massive step forward for managing multi-tenancy with vector databases. For most RAG and Vector DB applications, you will have an uneven distribution in the # of vectors per user. Some users have 10k do…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 78th episode of the Weaviate podcast featuring Rudy Lai, the founder and CEO of Tactic Generate! Tactic Generate has developed a user experience around applying LLMs in parallel to multiple documents, or even folders / collections / databases. Rudy discussed the user research that lead the company to…

Hey everyone, thank you so much for watching the 77th Weaviate Podcast on RAGAS, featuring Jithin James, Shahul ES, and Erika Cardenas! RAGAS is one of the hottest rising startups in Retrieval-Augmented Generation! RAGAS began it's journey with the RAGAS score, a matrix of evaluations for generation and retrieval. Generation evaluated on Faithfulne…

Hey everyone, I am SUPER excited to present our 76th Weaviate Podcast featuring Patrick Lewis, an NLP Research Scientist at Cohere! Patrick has had an absolutely massive impact on Natural Language Processing with AI and Deep Learning! Especially notable for the current climate in AI and Weaviate is that Patrick is the lead author of the original "R…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 75th Weaviate Podcast featuring Tanmay Chopra! The podcast details Tanmay's incredible career in Machine Learning from Tik Tok to Neeva and now building his own startup, Emissary! Tanmay shared some amazing insights into Search AI such as how to process Temporal Queries, how to think about diversity …

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 74th Weaviate Podcast feature Simba Khadder, the CEO and Co-Founder of FeatureForm! To begin, "features" broadly describe the inputs to machine learning models that they use to produce outputs, or predictions. Feature stores orchestrate the construction of features, whether that be transformations fo…

Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to publish our 73rd Weaviate Podcast with Charles Packer, the lead author of MemGPT at UC Berkeley! MemGPT presents the "Operating System for LLMs", an incredibly exciting idea to explicitly prompt the LLM with the information that it has a limited context window and give it memory management tools to behave accordi…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 72nd episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Madelon Hulsebos!! Madelon is one of the world's experts on Machine Learning with Tables and Tabular-Structured Data, this was such an eye-opening conversation! We discussed all sorts of topics from the relationship of tabular data and embeddings, to searchin…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 71st Weaviate Podcast with Vibs Abhishek! Vibs is the CEO and Founder of Alltius AI, as well as a professor at UC Irvine business school! In order to tame the somewhat chaotic emerging landscape of RAG and LLM applications, Alltius has settled on 3 core pillars of Knowledge, Skills, and Deployment Ch…

Thank you so much for watching our paper summary video on MemGPT! MemGPT is a super exciting new work bridging together concepts in how Operating Systems manage memory and LLMs! Links:Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.08560.pdfAndrej Karpathy on Operating Systems and LLMs: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1707437820045062561Run LLM Podcast with …

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 70th episode of the Weaviate podcast with Neum AI CTO and Co-Founder Kevin Cohen! I first met Kevin when he was debugging an issue with his distributed node utilization and have since learned so much from him about how he sees the space of Data Ingestion, also commonly referenced as ETL for LLMs! The…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 69th episode of the Weaviate Podcast featuring Charles Pierse from Tactic! Tactic has recently launched their new Tactic Generate project, an incredible UI for conducting research across multiple documents. I think there is a massive opportunity to pair these prompts and LLM workflows with User Inter…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 68th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! We are super excited to welcome Morgan McGuire, Darek Kleczek, and Thomas Capelle! This was such a fun discussion beginning with generally how see the space of fine-tuning from why you would want to do it, to the available tooling, intersection with RAG and more!…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 67th Weaviate Podcast, announcing Weaviate on the AWS Marketplace! This was one of my favorite podcasts to date with a deep dive on the details of running RAG applications in the cloud, our general understanding of LLM Fine-Tuning and RAG, as well as a really interesting discussion on VPCs and Hybrid…

Hey everyone! Here is a clip from our newest Weaviate podcast with Farshad Farahbakhshian, Gen AI specialist at AWS and Etienne Dilocker, CTO and Co-Founder of Weaviate! This podcast announces Weaviate on the AWS marketplace and is packed with info on running Weaviate in the cloud such as this clip explaining how Hybrid SaaS works! I hope you find …

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 66th Weaviate Podcast with David Garnitz, the creator of VectorFlow! VectorFlow (open-sourced on GH and linked below) is a new tool for ingesting data into Vector Databases such as Weaviate! There is quite an interesting End-to-End stack emerging at the ingestion layer, from retrieving data from misc…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the Weaviate Podcast! I am SUPER excited to publish my conversation with Ofir Press! Ofir has done incredible work pioneering AliBi attention and Self-Ask prompting and I learned so much from speaking with him! As always we are more than happy to answer any questions or discuss any ideas you have about t…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 64th Weaviate Podcast with Shishir Patil and Tianjun Zhang, co-authors of Gorilla: Large Language Models Connected with Massive APIs! I learned so much about Gorilla from Shishir and Tianjun, from the APIBench dataset to the continually evolving APIZoo, how the models are trained with Retrieval-Aware…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 63rd Weaviate Podcast, I couldn't be more excited to welcome Nils Reimers back to the podcast!! Similar to our debut episode together, we began by describing the latest collaboration of Weaviate and Cohere (episode 1, new multilingual embedding models; episode 2, rerankers!), and then continued into …

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 62nd Weaviate Podcast with Atai Barkai! We are stepping into the meta with this one for a podcast about podcasts! Podcasts are one of the biggest opportunities of new technologies, starting with Whisper's ability to transcribe audio to text and advances with speaker diarization, .. the question to be…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 61st episode of the Weaviate Podcast! I am beyond excited to publish this one! I first met Rohit at the Cal Hacks event hosted by UC Berkeley where we had a debate about the impact of Semantic Caching! Rohit taught me a ton about the topic and I think it's going to be one of the most impactful early …

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 60th Weaviate podcast with Patrice Bourgougnon! Patrice is the creator of WPSolr, integrating AI search capabilities with Wordpress and Woocommerce. Patrice is one of the most active contributors to Weaviate, filing issues and poking holes in new releases! Patrice shared incredible feedback on Weavia…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 58th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! I am SUPER excited to welcome Andriy Muylar! Andriy is the Co-Founder of Nomic AI, a company fresh off a $17M series A raise! Nomic has created some incredible products such as Atlas and GPT4All! I was really impressed by Andriy's vision of the state and forecast…

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 57th Weaviate podcast with Charles Frye! Charles is an educator at Full Stack Deep Learning, one of the world's top courses on Deep Learning with lectures available on YouTube (link below)! This was one of the most thorough Weaviate podcasts published so far, covering all sorts of topics around the e…

Chapters0:00 Weaviate 1.20!!!0:40 Multi-Tenancy35:36 PQ Rescoring47:20 Re-Ranking, AutoCut, Rank Fusion58:58 Cloud Monitoring Metrics

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 55th episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Aleksa Gordcic! This episodes dives into Aleksa's incredible story from Deep Learning YouTube to DeepMind and now creating Ortus! We dived into all sorts of topics, I loved hearing about the latest updates on Ortus and how Aleksa is sees the current state of …

Chapters0:00 Introduction0:38 Founding Story of Vody8:15 Custom Embedding Models12:42 Movie Genre Vectors13:42 Classification and Contrastive Learning15:45 Foundation Model Tuning21:13 Multimodal Generative Models25:08 Training Embedding Models33:20 Tabular Data Ranking Models36:00 RoomGPT41:36 Diversity in Recommendations48:25 Future Directions in…

Hey everyone, thank you so much for watching the 52nd episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Yana Welinder! Yana is the Founder and CEO of Kratful (https://www.kraftful.com/). Kratful is an incredibly interesting "ChatGPT but for Product Research" -- curating specific skills for Product Managers into a collection of prompts. We discussed all sorts of…

Hey everyone, thank you so much for watching the 51st episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Greg Kamradt and Colin Harmon! Greg and Colin are both entrepreneurs in the space of new AI tools powered by LLMs! This podcast is about keeping up with the evolution of LLM Agents from AutoGPT to connecting LLMs with Vector Databases or Wolfram Alpha, as wel…

This video explores a new paper exploring the use of summarization chains to represent long texts and use (original text, summary) pairs for optimizing text embeddings models! Here are 3 main takeaways I think everyone working with Weaviate may get value from:1. Understanding of Summary Indexing and the Prompts (as well as Prompt Chains) used to bu…

Hey everyone, thank you so much for watching the 50th (!!!) Weaviate Podcast with Emil Sorensen and Finn Bauer from Kapa AI! Are you curious about taking either your, or your company's, specific information and putting into a Vector DB + LLM system? Emil and Finn are doing this at the highest level, taking the documentation of software companies li…

Hey everyone, thank you so much for watching the 49th episode of the Weaviate Podcast!! This podcast features Professor Laura Dietz from the University of New Hampshire! I came across Dr. Dietz's tutorial at ECIR on Neuro-Symbolic Approaches for Information Retrieval and am so grateful that she was interested in joining the Weaviate Podcast! I lear…

Hey everyone, thank you so much for watching the 48th episode of the Weaviate Podcast!! This is a SUPER exciting one, welcoming Brian Raymond the CEO / Founder of Unstructured! Unstructured is a perfect complimenting technology for Weaviate, helping people get their Unstructured data into Weaviate! The podcast dives into the nuances of this task, b…