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Happy New Year, Weaviate Community! 🤗
Every GitHub star, Slack question, and RAG application you shipped made 2025 unforgettable for us. Thank you for inspiring us every day. 💚
As we head into 2026, the conversation has shifted. It’s no longer just about making AI work, it’s about making it scale. Whether you’re building agentic memory or optimizing multimodal clusters, we’ve gathered the best resources to help you get started.
Getting Started from 0
Are you just getting started with AI databases? Here are some more resources you might find helpful:
Get caught up with this explainer video (1 min)
Read A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases (16 mins)
Watch Victoria’s intro to vector embeddings webinar (55 mins)
Ready to build?
Get started free with Weaviate Cloud
Follow our Quickstart Guide
Code along with in our Weaviate Academy
✨ Get hands-on with Agentic AI
Building agents doesn't have to be complicated. Whether you want a full framework or a plug-and-play service, we've got you:
Elysia: Our open-source, agentic RAG framework, designed for fast and transparent deployment. Go from a local prototype to a collaborative environment in minutes. Explore Elysia
The Query Agent: A production-ready service that translates natural language into optimized database queries, handling the heavy lifting of reasoning over your schema. Try Query Agent
Scaling with Weaviate
Are you running Weaviate in production? Here are some resources for managing performance and cost at scale:
Read The Art of Scaling a Vector Database (7 mins)
Learn the data concepts behind multi-tenancy (6 mins)
Learn about Vector Compression in Weaviate, including our latest 8-bit Rotational Quantization for boosting search speed and quality.
Watch our webinar on Benchmarking AI Databases for performance
To keep building:
Dive into the documentation on Schema Configuration and Indexing
Code along with our multi-tenancy course in Weaviate Academy
Are you looking for technical deep dives? Download our three most requested guides from 2025 (for free!):
The Context Engineering Guide: A guide to engineering reliable, context-aware AI systems.
Agentic Architectures: A guide to mastering fundamentals, patterns, and examples of agentic architectures.
Advanced RAG Techniques: A guide to help improve the performance of your RAG applications.
Product Highlights
Check out our latest product updates:
Faster Data Imports: We’ve merged the Import and Collections tools in Weaviate Cloud console. Now you can go from “zero to data” by uploading files or selecting sample sets directly during collection setup.
More Extensive Query Agent Testing: With the in-console Query Agent, you can now toggle between Search (retrieval-only) and Ask (full answer generation) modes. Plus, track your usage and manage subscriptions without leaving the page.
💚 Ready to start building? Jump right in and spin up your free Sandbox cluster with Weaviate Cloud. Or check our GitHub and star us while you're there. ⭐
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.
See you in two weeks,
Femke