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Weaviate 1.30 Release, Latest Interaction Models, and New Academy Courses
Anna Chope
April 10, 2025
Hello Weaviate Community! 🤗
While everyone is talking about AI Agents, we just released Weaviate 1.30. 🎉
We've brought powerful updates for your AI applications, like API-based user management, so you can control access more flexibly. Runtime RAG configurations let you adapt to different use cases on the fly, while multi-vector storage with quantization reduces your costs.
Plus, our BlockMax WAND and multi-vector embedding features are now production-ready.
Let's dive into what's new!
Latest AI & tech insights
Explore our recent Weaviate content:
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✍️ Weaviate 1.30 Release: Learn how Weaviate
v1.30brings significant updates including API-based user management, runtime RAG configurations, and quantization for multi-vector embeddings. Read the blog🔖 An Overview of Late Interaction Retrieval Models: ColBERT, ColPali, and ColQwen: Read about late interaction retrieval models, and how they enhance information retrieval by using multi-vector representations and semantically rich interactions. Read the blog
🥷AI Models - a gentle deep dive: Learn the foundations about core concepts of AI model architectures, model types and their use cases as well as model training and evaluation. Complete the course
Watch
📽️ Speeding Up AI Quantization Techniques for Models and Vector DBs: Learn how to significantly reduce the memory footprint of large language models and embedding models while preserving their functionality! Watch the full video
🎙 Structured Outputs with Will Kurt and Cameron Pfiffer - Weaviate Podcast #119: Explore how constrained decoding enables predictable, reliable outputs from language models—unlocking everything from perfect JSON generation to guided reasoning processes. Watch the full podcast
📲 Check out Femke and Victoria’s latest shorts on all things agents, MCP, and more!
Femke | AI Agents: Tools & APIs Check it out
Femke | AI Agents Frameworks Watch short
Victoria | What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)? Watch here
Femke & Tuana | AI Agents Explained: Making AI Actually WORK For You Watch here
🎧 Tune into the Weaviate podcast on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.
Product highlights
Check out our latest product updates. Or follow along in the #announcement channel in the Weaviate Community Slack.
✍️ Weaviate v1.30: Runtime config management, Dynamic user management, Dynamic RAG model selection, Multi-value vector support, BlockMax WAND-based BM25. Check it out on GitHub
Check out our latest integrations with the technology ecosystem around Weaviate for you to test out!
Upcoming events
Join us online or in person for expert-led AI workshops and networking events. Connect, learn, and build with the community!
Online
💫 Weaviate 1.30 Release Highlights | April 10 | In this session, our experts will dive into some of the features in Weaviate 1.30 and provide a technical walkthrough, show you what they are, how to use them, and what benefits you will gain. Register to get recording & materials
🛠️ Online Workshop - Introduction to Weaviate for JavaScript Developers | April 15th | Tune into a new introductory live workshop designed for JavaScript Developers. Let's dive into Weaviate with Daniel Phiri! Sign up here
🚀 Online Workshop - Build Scalable Apps with Weaviate | April 24th | In this advanced session, JP provides tips and tricks on how to scale your AI applications in various ways. Together you will look at index type optimization, compression, replication & multi-tenancy. Register here
🤖 Reimagine Data Workflows with Weaviate Agents | April 29th | Join us for a live session diving into agentic data architectures. Our 4 experts show how to chat with your data and gain true insights without worrying about the operational details or spending time finding the right collections or search types - the Weaviate Agents do that for you. Register here
In-person
Las Vegas, US | April 9th-11th | Google Cloud Next 2025: Come find us at booth #1688 all week to meet some cool people, learn about Weaviate, and browse some authentic swag!
Atlanta, US | April 24th | AI [in Prod] Atlanta: Join us for a day full of insights around using AI in production from our customers and experts, recent Weaviate news and free hands-on training. Registere here
Company updates
We are excited to welcome Hamdi, Jenny, and Alex to the Weaviate team!🤗
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.
Weaviate is open source ➡️ Check our GitHub and star us while you're there. ⭐
See you again in two weeks,
Anna