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Patient care powered by AI at Google Hackathon, Github Hack Night, Workshops and Events, and more
Femke Plantinga
May 09, 2024
Hello Weaviate Community, 🤗
Welcome to this week’s AI updates! Our newsletter is brimming with exciting updates, including many events, workshops, and a hack night for you to dive into. Weaviate recently took part in the Solve with Google Hackathon, collaborating closely with the Prinses Máxima Centrum voor Kinderoncologie. Discover all the latest and greatest developments with us. Also, explore our latest job openings - we’re hiring. 🚀
Let's jump right in!
Weaviate @ Solve with Google The Hackathon!
Team Weaviate joined the Solve with Google Hackathon and worked with the Prinses Máxima Centrum voor kinderoncologie and the attending teams to build generative AI projects with Gemini and Weaviate!
We had an amazing time building projects to help the children who receive treatment at the center. 💚
AI data tips, tricks, and tech
How-to
✍️ Using Weaviate to Find Waldo by Jonathan Tuite
Dive into using Weaviate for image recognition to find the "needle in a haystack"!
✍️ Embed and Search Text at Scale with Modal and Weaviate by Charles Frye and Erika Cardenas
Learn how to vectorize ~50 million objects and ingest them into Weaviate using Modal!
Newest AI & data technology developments
Podcasts
🎙 Google Cloud Marketplace with Dai Vu and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #95!
The 95th Weaviate Podcast featuring Dai Vu from Google and Weaviate Co-Founder Bob van Luijt explores Google Cloud Marketplace, Open-Source models, AI-Native applications, data gravity trends, benchmarking perspectives, and Dai's "aha" moment in AI.
Listen to the Weaviate podcast on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. ✨🎧
News
How can integrating Weaviate with Red Hat OpenShift enhance your application's AI capabilities? Explore combining Weaviate and Red Hat OpenShift in a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow and learn how these tools can help optimize data retrieval and processing in AI-driven applications.
Upcoming events
Weaviate Office Hours
Our upcoming Office Hours is on Wednesday, May 15th. The Topic (voted by our Slack Community) will be Collections & General Q&A. Join our regular Office Hours to meet the experts and ask all the questions you may have.
Webinars
Considering the benefits of generative AI to improve customer support? Join Job Nijenhuis, CTO of Neople, and Erika Cardenas, our Technology Partner Manager, for a lively discussion on how the latest advances in AI are helping companies provide more efficient and accurate support to their customers.
Date: Wednesday, May 29th Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CEST
Online workshops
Tuesday, May 14th | Intro to Weaviate with Duda Nogueira
Thursday, May 16th | Multimodality with Zain Hasan (advanced)
Wednesday, May 22nd | Building Multimodal Search Applications in Typescript with Daniel Phiri
Meetups
Wednesday, May 15th | London | AI Meetup: Vector DB and Benchmarking Framework for LLama
Thursday, May 16th | NY | AI Meetup (May): GenAI, LLMs, ML and Data
Other Events
Thursday, May 21st | NY Roadshow
AI [in Prod] is back and headed to NYC! Join us and the Google Cloud team in person for a day of learning focused on building reliable, enterprise-ready AI applications. Space is limited, so request a ticket today!
Thursday, May 23rd | AWS Immersion Day
We’re teaming up with AWS to bring you a technical, hands-on workshop on building AI-native applications with Amazon Bedrock and Weaviate!
On May 23rd in Eindhoven, Sebastian and JP will take you from set up and ‘Hello World,’ all the way to generative AI, multitenancy, and multivector configurations. You’ll get to level up your skills with the latest vector search and RAG techniques ✨
Tuesday, May 14th | Hacknight at Github! (second edition ✨)
Join us in San Francisco for an exciting evening of challenges and developer camaraderie at our upcoming event with Strada, TwelveLabs, and OctoAI 🚀 We've crafted another engaging evening to ensure high-value learning for you across all these products, offering something for everyone.
Remember to check out the provided links for all the details on how to sign up. We can't wait to meet you!
Welcoming new faces
Meet Scott Alexander, joining as our new Client-Focused SRE!
We’re hiring!
Check out our open roles:
If you're excited about the end-to-end planning and execution of marketing events and have an outcomes-focused mindset, this is the role for you. Note: This is a US-based role 🇺🇸
You'll be responsible for implementing, managing, and optimizing Weaviate's revenue operations processes to drive efficiency, streamline workflows, and maximize revenue generation.
Senior Software Engineer Database
In this role, you will drive the development and optimization of our vector database, focusing on enhancing its functionality, performance, and scalability.
Customer-focused SRE (US West Coast-based)
In this role (US West Coast-based) you'll be the linchpin for managing customer cloud environments, ensuring the seamless operation of our vector database installations across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Have a look at our career page for more roles and opportunities! ✨
Thank you for reading
Do you have any questions about Weaviate, vector databases, documentation, or other topics? Say hi at the Community Slack or join our Weaviate Forum, where you can engage in community conversations. Looking forward to your participation over the next two weeks!
Weaviate is open source. Check out our GitHub repository, and don't forget to star us while you're there ⭐
Till the next one,
Femke