Introducing: 🇪🇺 European Hack Nights, Compound AI Systems, and AI in Education

Hello Weaviate Community! 🤗

This week, we're covering RAG, Compound AI Systems, and new embedding types. We'll also discuss AI's impact across industries—like education—and share upcoming events and product updates.

Latest AI & tech insights

Explore our recent Weaviate content:

Read

• ✍️ Introduction to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG): Learn about Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), including architecture, use cases, implementation, and evaluation. Read the blog

• 🧠 New Knowledge Cards: Embedding Types

  • Sparse embeddings

  • Dense embeddings

  • Quantized embeddings

  • Multi-vector embeddings

  • Variable embeddings

Watch

• 🎙 Compound AI Systems with Philip Kiely - Weaviate Podcast #105! This episode covers Compound AI Systems, task staging for better AI performance, and Baseten's work on optimizing and scaling them. Watch the full podcast

• 🎙 AI in Education with Rose E. Wang - Weaviate Podcast #106! Rose E. Wang discusses her research on AI in education, including the Tutor CoPilot trial, one of the largest studies on AI's impact on K-12 education, involving 900 students and 1800 tutors. Watch the full podcast

• 📺 In under one minute

  • ANN Algorithms in a nutshell

  • AI Agent Optimization: Understanding the 'Pareto Frontier’

🎧 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.

• 🐍 Python client v4.9.0 release - Full changelog

  • Support for new 1.27 features:

    • Multi vector search for near_vector and hybrid

    • Backup cancellation

    • Vector search filter strategy (acorn)

  • Renaming -palm to -google for generative and vectorization modules.

  • Typing fixes

  • Bump of default embedded version to 1.26.6

  • Allow return_properties={True, False} as equivalents to {None, []}

• 🎉 Weaviate Core v1.26.7release. Release notes

  • LSM store segments cleanup feature

  • PaLM to Google modules renaming

  • Raft bootstrap timeout increase Fix & more

👀 Also, keep your eyes open for the Weaviate 1.27 Release!

Upcoming events

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

Online

• 📚 October 29th | Introduction to Weaviate | Online workshop. Register here

• 🎤 October 29th | GenAI Productionize 2.0 - Galileo | Virtual talk by our CEO & Co-founder Bob van Luijt. Tune in!

• 💻 October 29th | Benchmarking AI databases: How to test and optimize for your use case | Webinar with Byron Voorbach. Sign up here!

In-person

• 🇬🇧 October 28h | London | Gen AI Meetup. Save your spot

• 🌉 November 12th | San Francisco | Agent Hack Night at Github. Save your spot

• 🇬🇧 November 14th | London | AI [in Prod]. Request a ticket

We are bringing Hack Nights to Europe! 🇪🇺

• 🇫🇷 November 26th | Paris | AI Hack Night. Save your spot

Company updates

We are excited to welcome Ian Gregson, who is joining us as a Software Engineer. 🤗

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.

Follow our Blog, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube for more content updates.

Weaviate is open source ➡️ Check our GitHub and star us while you're there. ⭐

See you in two weeks,

Femke