🎉 Weaviate's Fourth Anniversary 🎉

Hey there!

We're thrilled to celebrate Weaviate's fourth anniversary with you and introduce some exciting updates in the 1.20 release! 🚀

Weaviate 1.20 Release Highlights:

• ✨ Multi-tenancy: Manage data with ease and ensure privacy for different environments.

• 🔍 PQ + Re-scoring: Faster search times without compromising quality.

• ✂️ Autocut: Streamlined data handling, removing unnecessary cuts.

• 🎯 Search Re-ranking: Get more accurate search results.

• ⚙️ New Hybrid Search Ranking Algorithm: Combining vector similarity and keyword relevance.

Learn more about each feature and listen to the Weaviate Podcast:

• 🎙 Etienne Dilocker on Weaviate 1.20 - Weaviate Podcast #56!

• ✍️ Weaviate 1.20 Release

📚 Vector Data Tips, Tricks, and Tech

How-To

• 👩‍🍳 Enhancing Language Model Responses by Erika Cardenas

  Introducing the Sub Question Query Engine Tool by LlamaIndex.

• 🎥 Indexes in LLamaIndex by Erika Cardenas

  This video covers the indexes in LlamaIndex and shows you how to combine the Indexes using the composable graph.

• ✍️ Getting Started with Weaviate: A Beginner’s Guide to Search with Vector Databases by Leonie Monigatti

  Learn how to use vector databases in Python for semantic search, question answering, and generative search with OpenAI and Weaviate.

Demos

• ⚙️ Health Search Demo by Edward Schmuhl

  An open-source demo that performs semantic- and generative searches based on user-written reviews of supplements, retrieving the most related products for specific health effects.

🚀 New AI & Data Tech

Podcasts

• 🎙 Charles Frye on Full Stack Deep Learning - Weaviate Podcast #57

  Explore the evolution of Deep Learning and its comparison with conventional machine learning workflows.

• 🎙 HNSW-FINGER Explained!

  Discover a clever technique approximating distances and revealing experimental results.

Talks

• 🎤 Computer Vision Meetup: Computer Vision Applications at Scale with Vector Databases by Zain Hasan

  Learn how Weaviate scales semantic search over unstructured data using multi-modal encoders for images and text in e-commerce and healthcare domains.

• 🎤 Ground Truth Episode 4: The Future of LLMs with Arthur, MosaicML, LangChain, and Weaviate with Bob van Luijt, Co-Founder & CEO of Weaviate

  Join an all-star lineup from the LLM world to discuss building and monetizing successful LLM companies and the future of LLMs.

News

• ✍️ WEAVIATE Named to Inaugural Redpoint InfraRed 100

  Weaviate is proud to be recognized as one of the top transformative companies in cloud infrastructure by InfraRed 100.

🎓 Getting Started with AI and Weaviate

In the fast-paced world of AI, Weaviate Academy’s "From Zero to MVP" course provides you with essential skills for working with Weaviate:

• Hello Weaviate

• Queries

• Schema and Imports

• Queries (2)

Visit the Weaviate Academy or watch the video series on YouTube.

🎉 Events

It's a special time for us as we mark our 4th anniversary! 🎂

Co-founders Bob van Luijt and Etienne Dilocker take you on a reflective journey of growth, paradigm shifts, and their unwavering belief in the power of AI.

• Read their story and explore the transformative changes that have shaped Weaviate's path: ✍️ Weaviate celebrates a fourth birthday!

As we reflect on the journey so far, we extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to our incredible team and community. Your passion and belief in Weaviate have been the driving force behind our success, and we are excited to continue this exciting adventure together.

Here's to many more years of collaboration, innovation, and transformation in AI! 🎉

🤝 New to Team Weaviate

This week, Marion Nehring joined us as Community Manager! She's joining the Developer Relations team and will make sure that our developer community will be even happier. 😄

👋 Thanks for Reading

For questions about Weaviate, vector databases, documentation, or anything else, head to the Weaviate Forum. See you in two weeks!

Best,

Femke