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Agents, agents, and agents!
Danny Williams
February 13, 2025
Hello Weaviate Community! 🤗
How is the AI landscape evolving with agents? We've got exciting new updates on AI-native infrastructure and an overview of agentic AI. Plus, we have a few new recipes making use of new methods in AI, such as RAG with citations and even a game recommender system!
And don’t forget - Weaviate 1.29 release is just around the corner! Scroll down to see our events.
Latest AI & tech insights
Explore our recent Weaviate content:
Read
📄 Querying Databases with Function Calling: We just released a research paper! Find out how we demonstrated Large Language Models' impressive ability to query databases through Function Calling. Read the full paper
✍️ The Future Speaks in Vectors - Why AI-native infrastructure is critical for agentic AI: Learn how traditional CRUD-based applications are giving way to agentic workflows with vector databases at their core. Read the blog
🔖 Agents Simplified: What do we mean in the context of AI? What is an AI Agent? Learn how AI agents work, the benefits of using AI agents, and more. Learn all about agents
Learn
🗞️ A Game Recommender RAG with DeepSeek & Ollama: In this recipe, build a custom RAG application designed to provide game recommendations using Deepseek R1 and Ollama. Find out how
📕 RAG with Weaviate and Anthropic’s Citations API: In this recipe, learn how to do RAG with Anthropic’s generative models, which cite the relevant parts of the retrieved documents. Follow along the code
Watch
🎙 Contextual AI with Amanpreet Singh - Weaviate Podcast #114: The 114th episode of the Weaviate Podcast features Amanpreet Singh, Co-Founder and CTO of Contextual AI! Watch the full podcast
📽️ Think Deepseek-R1 was trained like other top LLMs? Think again: Learn about the autonomous, self-evolution approach that was used to train Deepseek-R1. Watch the video
📺 60-second explainers on key concepts:
🎧 Tune into the Weaviate podcast on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.
Product highlights
Follow along in the #announcement channel in the Weaviate Community Slack.
Weaviate 1.29 is just around the corner! Our newest Weaviate Release 1.29 is around the corner and introduces many cool new features like Role-based Access Control (RBAC), and multi-valued vectors or BM25 performance improvements for your filters search. Join the release highlights session!
Upcoming events
Join us online or in person for expert-led AI workshops and networking events. Connect, learn, and build with the community!
Online
📊 Master Vector Embeddings with Weaviate with Data Science Dojo | Feb 19th. Register here
⛰️ Navigating the AI Database Landscape: Guidance from the Field | Feb 20th. Register here
🎓 Online Workshop - RAG in ECommerce for JavaScript Developers | Feb 20th. Register here
⭐️ Weaviate 1.29 Release Highlights Session | March 5th. Register here
In-person
🌉 Dallas Roadshow | Dallas, TX | Feb 27th. Save your spot
🎤 AI Open Mic Night + Networking | Menlo Park, CA | Feb 18th. Save your spot
💫 Agentic AI Hack Night | San Francisco, CA | Feb 19th. Register here
🤝 AI Leaders Chat & Network at Cloudflare | San Francisco, CA | Feb 28th. Request to join
Company updates
We are excited to welcome these awesome new joiners!
🧑💻 Faustas Butkus - Software Engineer
⌨️ Tobias Christiani - Research Engineer
📈 Jake Heier - Enterprise Account Executive
🧑💻 Kamil Tyborowski - Software Engineer
We're so excited to have you on the Weaviate team.
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?
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,
Danny