FREE Advanced RAG eBook, New Explorer Tool, and Embedding Model Guide

Hello Weaviate Community! 🤗

This week, grab your FREE copy of the Advanced RAG Techniques eBook and try out the new Explorer Tool in Weaviate Cloud. Also, check out our videos on choosing an embedding model and horizontal scaling, along with some exciting online/in-person events!

Latest AI & tech insights

Explore our recent Weaviate content:

Read

• 📕 Advanced RAG Techniques (Ebook): A guide to help improve the performance of your Retrieval-Augmented Generation applications. Download for FREE

• ✍️ Hybrid Search Explained: Learn about the hybrid search feature that enables you to combine dense and sparse vectors to deliver the best of both search methods! Read the blog

• 🔖 Introducing the Weaviate Trust Portal: Looking for our security documentation or auditors reports? We have now launched our trust portal to make your compliance reviews easy! Learn how

Watch

• 🎙 Cartesia AI with Karan Goel - Weaviate Podcast #113!: Karan Goel from Cartesia AI discuss State Space Models (SSMs), a breakthrough in overcoming transformer limitations. Topics include text-to-speech, long-context processing, and multimodal AI. Watch the full podcast

• 📽️ How to choose an embedding model: Open source or closed source embedding models? Depends on your use case! There are several trade-offs to consider and Victoria is there to guide you! Watch the video

• 📺 60-second explainers on key concepts:

  • Introduction to Horizontal Scaling

🎧 Tune into the Weaviate podcast on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

Product highlights

Check out our latest product updates. Or follow along in the #announcement channel in the Weaviate Community Slack.

• ☁️ Explorer Tool: Explore your data easily with Weaviate Cloud’s new Explorer tool. Browse collections and inspect objects, metadata, and vectors, all without writing any code in a sleek UI! Try it now

Upcoming events

Join us online or in person for expert-led AI workshops and networking events. Connect, learn, and build with the community!

Online

• 📚 Intro to Weaviate for JavaScript Developers with Daniel | Thursday, February 6. Register here

• 📊 Master Vector Embeddings with Weaviate | With Data Science Dojo

  • 1️⃣ Part 1: Thursday 6 February

  • 2️⃣ Part 2: Wednesday 12 February

  • 3️⃣ Part 3: Wednesday 19 February

• 🏢 Weaviate Office Hours - Free Q&A | See dates and register

In-person

• 🌉 Dallas Roadshow | Feb 27th in Dallas, TX. Save your spot

Company updates

We are excited to welcome Danielle, Giorgos, and Mary. 🤗

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.

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See you in two weeks,

Prajjwal