Production-Ready AI Apps, RAG Advancements, and SF Hack Nights!

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Femke Plantinga
August 01, 2024

Hello Weaviate Community 🤗

We're excited to announce the release of Weaviate 1.26, which is packed with exciting new features and updates. This version introduces flexible storage tiers to optimize data management and streamlines AI application development with our new apps feature.

Stay tuned for upcoming community updates and resources on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). We're also actively hiring, so be sure to read to the end for career opportunities!

Let's dive in 🚀

New Weaviate features are here 💚

We’re excited to share some exciting product updates! With our latest release version 1.26, our team built highly-requested new features to support scaling, cost management, and developer efficiency.

Learn more

AI data tips, tricks, and tech

How-to

Newest AI & data technology developments

Podcasts

Listen to the Weaviate podcast on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. ✨🎧

Weaviate Paper Reviews

Read Zain Hasan’s paper reviews:

Upcoming events

Join our upcoming webinar alongside experts from Astronomer to learn best practices and recommendations for building an efficient and scalable tech stack for your next AI project.

Learn the benefits of using Apache Airflow and vector databases to ingest and index data and see it all in action with a live e-commerce demo!

We’ve just launched some highly-requested features that unlock new capabilities for cost optimization, performance, and developer efficiency for AI applications. Join Sebastian, Etienne, and Charles in our product update webinar as they share how you can:

  • Take advantage of best practices for running AI applications at scale

  • Find the sweet spot between cost and performance with flexible tenant offloading

  • Bring new ideas to users faster with Weaviate's new workbench and apps like our new Recommender service

Online

In-person events in San Francisco

Remember to check out the provided links for all the details on how to sign up. We can't wait to meet you!

Community RAG Corner

RAG is one of the hottest topics in AI right now. So let’s learn, grow, and share our expertise, together — with that said, we’re excited to introduce our Community RAG Corner!

Lately, we received a lot of signals and feedback from people wanting to see, learn, and share more about RAG including:

  • Best practices

  • Community insights and industry standards

  • Use cases

  • Step-by-step tutorials

  • demos, apps, and tools

  • Opportunities for Q&A and peer discussions

We hear you, and we’re acting on your feedback.

Join our Community RAG Corner in our friendly Open Community Slack and learn from the experts, share your knowledge and expertise, or chat with other community members about your questions and journey.

Welcoming new faces

  • Meet Deepti Naidu, who is joining us as a Partner Solution Engineer.

Remote work at Weaviate

Did you know that Weaviate is a fully remote company? Our team spans the globe, embracing a culture built on flexibility, innovation, and growth. Working remotely at Weaviate makes work more enjoyable and fulfilling. Jessie, our Head of People & Culture, has launched our Remote Page on Weaviate.io. Check it out to see how we thrive as a fully remote company and explore if joining us could be your next career move!

Current open roles:

More details about hiring can be found on our Career Page! ✨

Thank you for reading

Do you have any questions about Weaviate, vector databases, documentation, or other topics? Say hi in our Community Slack or join the 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. ⭐

See you in two weeks,

Femke