Weaviate Embeddings, Weaviate 1.28 Highlights, and RAG in Ecommerce

Hello Weaviate Community 🤗

Wrap up the year with us! 💫 Celebrate the season with new releases, festive community events, and the best giveaways. Weaviate Embeddings have arrived, and the Weaviate 1.28 release is just around the corner.

We're spreading extra holiday cheer this December! 🎁 Share your insights on how you use AI tools to build your products by taking our quick, 4-minute anonymous survey in collaboration with Vellum AI, FireworksAI, and LlamaIndex. ➡️🤯 Take the survey and win a MacBook M4 Pro!

New: Weaviate Embeddings

Introducing Weaviate Embeddings – Say goodbye to the headaches of creating and managing vector embeddings.

We’re super excited to announce the preview of Weaviate Embeddings, a new embedding service in Weaviate Cloud that simplifies creating vector embeddings for AI developers by eliminating the need to connect to external providers. Read more in our blog post

Or give it a try

• Documentation

• Register for our upcoming webinar

• Request preview access here

Latest AI & tech insights

Explore our recent Weaviate content:

Read

• 🔖 Unbody’s Approach to Expanding Weaviate’s Generative Capabilities: Unbody, an AI-native development stack, integrated Weaviate as a core component for generative features and later expanded its capabilities through a custom extension to meet their specific requirements. Read the blog

Watch

• 🎙 New embedding model: Contextual Document Embeddings: Contextual Document Embeddings (CDE) enhances traditional embeddings by considering document context, improving performance while maintaining efficiency. Watch the full video

Upcoming events

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

Online

• 📚 December 11th | Weaviate 1.28 Highlights & Q&A | Weaviate 1.28 is around the corner! Join our upcoming session about our Weaviate 1.28 Highlights. Explore some cool new features based on real-world data in this hands-on life session. Register here

• 🛠️ December 12th | Simplify Building AI-Native: Embedding Models and Vector Databases | Register here

• 📚 December 17th | Build Scalable AI Applications with Weaviate | Register here

• 🛠️ December 18th | Weaviate Office Hours - Free Q&A | Register here

• 📚 December 19th | RAG in Ecommerce for JS Developers with Daniel | Register here

In-person

• 🏙️  December 11th | Seattle | AI Meetup | Save your spot here

• 🇩🇪 December 12th | Berlin | AI Hack Night | Save your spot here

• 🍎 December 12th | New York | AI Meetup | Save your spot here

Company updates

We are excited to welcome Damien Gasparina as an Enterprise Solution Engineer.

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.

Follow our Blog, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube for more content updates.

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

See you in two weeks,

Anna