Free Tiers in Weaviate Cloud, New Playground Demos and a Ricoh Investment

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The best developer platforms don’t just provide infrastructure - they make it easy to learn, experiment, and build. That’s why this week we’re introducing free tiers across Weaviate Cloud, launching the new Weaviate Playground with hands-on AI demos, and celebrating a strategic investment from Ricoh as we continue expanding the AI-native platform for developers and enterprises alike.

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• ✍️ Building AI should start with building—not billing: Weaviate has always been free to self-host. Now, we’re extending that philosophy across the entire Weaviate Cloud platform with a free tier for the managed database, Query Agent, and Engram. Read the blog

• 🚀 Ricoh invests in Weaviate: A new strategic investment from Ricoh through the RICOH Innovation Fund marks another exciting milestone as we continue building the AI-native database powering the next generation of AI applications. Read the announcement

• 🧠 Memory changes everything for AI agents: Learn how Engram gives agents persistent memory and context, enabling them to remember past interactions, learn over time, and power more capable production-ready applications. Read the announcement

• 📥 Import & Vectorize Data at Scale: Moving from a prototype to millions of objects introduces new challenges. Learn production best practices for high-volume imports, server-side batching, retries, multimodal ingestion, and building resilient pipelines with Weaviate. Read the guide

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• 🎙 Knowledge Engineering with Dr. Bradley Allen – Weaviate Podcast #139: Dr. Allen explores five decades of AI history, from expert systems and knowledge graphs to today’s LLMs, explaining why knowledge engineering remains essential for building trustworthy enterprise AI. Watch the full podcast

• 🚀 Can We Win Europe’s Biggest Hackathon?: Follow the Weaviate team as we take on one of Europe’s largest AI hackathons, building an agentic content platform in just 26 hours while exploring the future of Europe’s startup and builder ecosystem. Watch the journey

• ⚖️ Building a Production-Ready Legal RAG App… in One Prompt: See how we built a production-ready legal assistant using Weaviate Query Agent, multi-vector retrieval, and coding agents—transforming weeks of development into a single guided prompt. Watch the tutorial

Product highlights

• 🆓 Weaviate Cloud Free Tiers: Weaviate Cloud now includes free tiers (with no credit card required) for both Database and Engram. Launch a fully managed cluster, experiment with Query Agent and persistent memory, and upgrade whenever you’re ready. Start free

• 🛝 Introducing the Weaviate Playground: Explore a growing collection of interactive demos built with Weaviate—from Engram and Query Agent to multimodal search and AI-powered recommendations. It’s the easiest way to experience what’s possible before building your own applications. Explore the Playground

• 🧠 Engram General Availability: Our managed memory service for AI agents is now production-ready, enabling persistent context across sessions so agents can remember, learn, and improve over time. Try it now

• ⚙️ Weaviate Core v1.36.18: The latest patch release delivers stability improvements, bug fixes, RBAC enhancements, and infrastructure updates to keep production deployments running smoothly. Read the release notes.

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See you in two weeks,

Shan