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ACORN, Agentic RAG, and Contextual Document Embeddings
Femke Plantinga
November 21, 2024
Hello Weaviate Community! 🤗
This week, we're exploring ACORN strategies, Agentic RAG, and Weaviate 1.27 features. Join our upcoming workshops and AI Hack Nights to dive deeper into the latest features and trends in AI applications across industries. Let’s dive in!
Latest AI & tech insights
Explore our recent Weaviate content:
Read
🔎 Vector Search Explained: Learn about vector search, a technique that uses mathematical representations of data to find similar items in large data sets. Read the blog
🚀 How we speed up filtered vector search with ACORN: Learn about the challenges of filtered vector search and how Weaviate tackles them with ACORN. Read the blog
✍️ What is Agentic RAG? Learn about Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), including architecture, implementation, and how it’s different from vanilla RAG. Read the blog
Watch
🎙 Agentic RAG with Erika Cardenas - Weaviate Podcast #109! This podcast explores Agentic RAG, covering its basics and comparing it with Vanilla RAG, Multi-Agent Systems, and tools like CrewAI. It also discusses Agentic Generative Feedback Loops and their impact on AI capabilities. Watch the full podcast
📽️ New embedding model: Contextual Document Embeddings. Traditional document embeddings have a significant limitation: they encode documents independently without considering their context or neighboring documents. Watch the video
📺 Short tutorials on key concepts:
🎧 Tune into the Weaviate podcast on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.
Product highlights
Check out our latest product updates. Or follow along in the #announcements channel in the Weaviate Community Slack.
✍️ ACORN Strategy Implementation: ACORN is our new filter strategy that improves upon the existing strategy to better handle negatively correlated queries and high selectivity filters. Learn more in our blog post
🆕 Weaviate 1.27 features: Join our upcoming “What’s new with Weaviate 1.27” session to see some of our new features in action. Register here
Upcoming events
Join us online or in person for expert-led AI workshops and networking events. Connect, learn, and build with the community!
Online
📚 November 27th | What’s New - Weaviate 1.27 | Register here
🛠️ December 3rd | Introduction to Weaviate (Workshop) | Register here
📚 December 4th | Weaviate Office Hours | Register here
🛠️ December 5th | Introduction to Weaviate for JavaScript Developers (Workshop) | Register here
In-person
🇳🇱 November 27th | Amsterdam | Agentic AI Meetup. Save your spot
Hack Nights
🇫🇷 November 26th | Paris | AI Hack Night. Save your spot
🇩🇪 December 12th | Berlin | AI Hack Night. Save your spot
Company updates
This week, we are excited to welcome Anna and Ryan. 🤗
Join our team — We're hiring across various teams! ➡️ Check out our career page for exciting opportunities in engineering, research, and more.✨
Hungry for more?
Do you have a question or want to connect? Say hi in the Community Slack or join our Weaviate Forum to engage in community conversations.
Weaviate is open source ➡️ Check our GitHub and star us while you're there. ⭐
See you in two weeks,
Femke