Weaviate 1.33, Multi-Tenancy, and Multi-Agent Systems with Crew AI

Hello Weaviate Community! πŸ€—

Got data that’s eating up memory like there’s no tomorrow? We’ve got you.

The new Weaviate 1.33 release comes with compression enabled by default, giving you optimal memory usage and faster performance right out of the box.

This week, we’re exploring what’s new in 1.33, diving into native multi-tenancy, building multi-agent systems with Crew AI (plus a few cool events you don’t want to miss).

Product highlights

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

Weaviate 1.33 is now available open source and on Weaviate Cloud.

It comes with quite some impressive performance improvements - let’s explore them together:

  • πŸ’Ύ Compression by default: 8-bit rotational quantization (RQ) is now enabled by default when creating new collections, ensuring optimal memory usage and faster performance out of the box. Try it now

  • πŸ”’ OIDC group management: Leverage user groups defined in your identity provider (like Keycloak, Okta, or Auth0) to manage permissions in Weaviate automatically. Try it now

  • πŸŒ€ 1-bit rotational quantization (RQ): This quantization technique provides massive (close to 32x) compression rates while maintaining good search quality. Read more

  • πŸ›’ Server-side batch imports: Instead of manually tuning batch parameters on the client side, you can now let the server manage the data flow rate for optimal performance. Try the preview now

✨ Try our most recent release in Weaviate Cloud!

Latest AI & tech insights

Explore our recent Weaviate content:

Read

  • πŸ‘₯ Rethinking Vector Search at Scale: Weaviate's Native, Efficient, and Optimized Multi-Tenancy: Most vector databases treat multi-tenancy as an afterthought. In Weaviate, multi-tenancy is built directly into its core architecture. That means you get a scalable, cost-efficient, and high-performance solution designed for your multi-tenant applications. Read the blog

  • πŸ—žοΈ Building Multi-Agent Systems with Crew AI and Weaviate: Learn how CrewAI simplifies multi-agent systems and walk through a recipe featuring three domain-specific agents (biomedical, healthcare, and finance), each equipped with a Weaviate vector search tool and Google search. Read the blog

Watch

  • πŸ“½οΈ REFRAG Explained!: REFRAG from Meta Superintelligence Labs is an exciting breakthrough that illustrates how Database Systems are becoming even more integral to LLM inference. Watch the video

  • πŸ“Ή Building AI Agents with TARS & Weaviate: In this episode of AI Engineer Spotlight, Adam sits down with the creators of TARS, a revolutionary conversational AI platform that makes it easier than ever to build intelligent agents. Watch the video

🎧 Tune into the Weaviate podcast on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

Upcoming events

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

Online

  • πŸ“š [Webinar] Vibe Coding Saturdays | October 18. Join to practice vibe coding together. We'll come up with a business idea, design the system, and build it from the ground up using the Vibe coding tools of our choice. Join now

  • 🏒 Weaviate Office Hours | October 15. Get your chance to meet our experts personally and ask them all the questions you ever wanted during Weaviate Office Hours. Register here

  • πŸ”„ Agentic RAG Workflows with Weaviate in JavaScript | October 16. Join Daniel Phiri for a new advanced workshop designed for JavaScript Developers and dive into Agentic RAG Architectures. Sign up now

  • πŸ€– Building a Multi Agent Systems with the Weaviate Query Agent | October 30. Join Daniel Phiri for a brand-new workshop around building multi-agent systems and learn how to build them from scratch. Sign up now

In-person

  • πŸ“Ÿ Berlin | October 11 | Big Berlin Hack - 300 Builders, 36 Hours, 25k€+ Prizes. Sign up now

  • πŸŽ“ Boston | October 15 | DSPy Boston: Build Applications with Weaviate, AWS, and DSPy. Register here

  • πŸŒ‰ San Francisco | October 22 | AWS AI Hack Day Micro Conference. Register here

  • πŸŒ† San Francisco | October 28 | AI Workshops at Cloudflare. Save your spot

  • πŸŒƒ San Francisco | November 13 | Build Night at GitHub. Register now

😎 Find more live and on-demand workshops, webinars, and events on our event page

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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See you in two weeks,

Kamil