Text Analysis for Hybrid Search and Booking.com Agents

Hello Weaviate Community! 🤗

Strong tokenization makes hybrid search work across languages and accents. This week we're sharing a deep dive into text analysis mechanics, plus a look at how Booking.com runs production AI agents at massive scale.

Latest AI & tech insights

Explore our recent Weaviate content:

Read

• ✍️ Text Analysis for Hybrid Search: Tokenization, Stopwords & Accent Folding: Tokenization choices determine hybrid search quality. Learn how Weaviate handles accent folding, custom stopwords, and provides a dedicated endpoint for multilingual BM25. Read the blog

• 🚀 Weaviate v1.37 is now available open-source and on Weaviate Cloud, bringing a wave of new features for AI-native applications including a built-in MCP Server for AI agents, Diversity Search (MMR) for less repetitive retrieval, Extensible Tokenizers for multilingual search control and Query Profiling for deep performance insights. The release also adds incremental backups, Gemini audio embeddings, BlobHash storage, and more. Read the blog

Watch

• 🎙 Booking.com and Weaviate with Başak Eskili - Weaviate Podcast #138: Başak joins the podcast to discuss Booking.com's shift from keyword matching to semantic retrieval, the architecture behind their partner-to-guest messaging agent using tool-calling and human-in-the-loop design, and how they evaluate vector databases at hundreds of millions of embeddings scale. Watch the full podcast

•  🎥 Can we win Europe’s biggest Hackathon? - We joined 1,400+ builders in Berlin for one of Europe’s largest AI hackathons building an agentic content pipeline powered by Weaviate, Gemini and real-time trend analysis. From AI agents and creator tools to the future of European tech, this was a fun behind-the-scenes look at what builders can create in just 26 hours. Watch the video

Product highlights

🔑 Cloud RBAC enhancements: Two new user roles (see documentation) are now available for more granular control to Weaviate Cloud resources within organizations:

• Editors have full access to features and resources; cannot manage users or billing

• Viewers have read-only access to all resources

🎮 Console navigation improvements: Experience our Cloud console with more efficient cluster and organization selection, as well as a new Overview page for organization management.

Company updates

We are excited to welcome Alisa to the Weaviate team! 🤗

Join our team — We're hiring across various teams! ➡️ Check out our career page for exciting opportunities in engineering, sales, growth, and more.✨

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See you in two weeks,

Shan