The Future of DSPy, Building LLM-Powered Apps in Go, and Distillation Experiments

Hello Weaviate Community! 🤗

As September rolls in and many of us return to our routines, we've got exciting new topics to explore, from Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) to the future of DSPy. Plus, we'll see how AI shapes various industries, such as AI-powered search for ECommerce.

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Latest AI & tech insights

Explore our recent Weaviate content:

Read

• ✍️ AI-Enabled eCommerce in TypeScript: Enhance your eCommerce AI-powered search. Read the blog

• 🔖 Building LLM-powered Applications in Go: Craft RAG servers with Weaviate. Learn how

• 🗞️ Distillation Experiments: Model distillation vs. fine-tuning. Read the paper review

Watch

• 🎙 AI Agents That Matter: The motivation behind Automated Prompt Engineering and Multi-Layer Language Programs (Compound AI Systems), exploring their intersection and MIPRO’s mechanics, along with topics like Structured Outputs, AI Agents, and DSPy for Code Generation.Watch the full podcast

• 📽️ The future of DSPy: 60-second short

• 📽️ Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL): Explore its applications in ML tasks and vector compression. Watch the video

• 📺 60-second explainers on key concepts:

  • Vector embeddings

  • Range index

  • Vector index

Product highlights

Check out our latest product updates. Or follow along in the #announcement channel in the Weaviate Community Slack.

• ✍️ FriendliAI Generative AI with Weaviate: Fast inference and cost-effective fine-tuning are now available with Weaviate 1.26.3. Try it now

• 📱 Be among the first to experience Weaviate's Recommender service and Explorer tool—sign up for early access today!

Upcoming events

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

Online

• 📚 Wednesday, October 9th | Workshop: Introduction to Weaviate for JavaScript Developers. Register here

• 🛠️ Thursday, October 10th | Workshop: Build scalable AI applications with Weaviate. Register here

In-person

• 🌉 San Francisco | Tuesday, September 17th | #SFTechWeek Hack Night at GitHub. Save your spot

Build with Weaviate

Discover how developers use Weaviate in community projects and industry applications.

💚 Community spotlights

• Mixpeek enables semantic video search, allowing users to find specific scenes using text descriptions or similar video clips. Integrated with Weaviate, it enhances content discovery, copyright enforcement, and recommendations by revolutionizing how video data is analyzed and insights are derived. Read more.

• Edworking is a work "super app" that centralizes tasks, conversations, calendars, video calls, files, and media. It enables teams to stay connected and use Weaviate for indexing and knowledge retrieval across all content, including video and email. Weaviate is updated every 15 minutes via Apache Airflow.

What are you building something cool with Weaviate? ➡️ Share it with us!

Company updates

We are excited to welcome Connor, Hina, Alvin, and Chad. 🤗

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.

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

See you in two weeks,

Femke