Writing blog posts with generative feedback loops, advanced RAG, multimodality, and more…

Hello Weaviate Community, 🤗

I hope you're experiencing the first joys of Spring already, wherever you are! 🌷

In case we haven’t told you, our goal is to help you quickly, securely, and easily develop AI applications. To simplify your learning process, we've recently introduced 'Office Hours' - a series of interactive events accessible online to everyone! Plus, don't miss out on the latest news, tutorials, podcast highlights, and many more exciting updates, including the groundbreaking announcement of Accelerating Vector Search up to +40% with Intel’s latest Xeon CPU - Emerald Rapids.

Check all the details below!

Accelerating Vector Search up to +40% with Intel’s latest Xeon CPU - Emerald Rapids

What’s the most important calculation a vector database needs to do over and over again? What simple operation does it spend the majority of its time performing?

If you guessed vector distance calculations … BINGO! 🎉

Overview of Key Sections:

• Vector Distance Calculations - Different vector distance metrics are popularly used in Weaviate.

• Implementations of Distance Calculations in Weaviate - Improvements under the hood for implementation of Dot product and L2 distance metrics.

• Intel’s 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processor, Emerald Rapids - More on Intel's new 5th Gen Xeon processor.

• Benchmarking Performance numbers on microbenchmarks along with simulated real-world usage scenarios.

✍️ Read the blog post by Zain Hasan, John Trengrove, Asdine El Hrychy.

AI data tips, tricks, and tech

How-to

• ✍️ Hurricane: Writing Blog Posts with Generative Feedback Loops by Connor Shorten

  • Learn more about how Generative Feedback Loops are transforming the way we utilize our data. In this demo, Connor shows you how to build a web application with Arize Phoenix, DSPy, OpenAI, Weaviate, and You to convert questions into blog posts, saving the generated blog posts back into Weaviate.

• ✍️ Announcing the Weaviate Typescript Client Beta by Daniel Phiri and Tommy Smith

  • A beta release of our new Typescript client is now available! Help us make it better by trying it out and providing your feedback.

Newest AI & data technology developments

Podcasts

• 🎙 Tengyu Ma on Voyage AI - Weaviate Podcast #91!

  • Welcoming Tengyu Ma to the Weaviate podcast! Tengyu is the co-founder of Voyage AI and an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Tengyu explains the founding vision of Voyage AI and all things embedding models.

Upcoming events

Google Cloud Next 2024

We’re headed to Las Vegas for Google Cloud’s innovation conference on April 9th - 11th! Stop by booth #1914 to see our cutting edge demos and latest product features, get your hands on our limited edition swag and raffle prizes, and talk to experts about how to build with Weaviate. Click here to learn more and request a meeting with our team.

Office hours

Weaviate Office Hours are a great chance to meet our experts personally and ask them all the questions you always wanted. Come and join the discussion and ask any questions you might have 💚 Our office hours are live and not recorded!

• Wednesday, April 10th | Chunking with JP Hwang and Zain Hasan

  • Details & Registration

• Wednesday, April 23rd | gRPC & Performance with John Trengrove and Duda Nogueira

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Intro Workshops with JP & Daniel

Join JP Hwang and Daniel Phiri in one of their Online Workshops to learn more about vector databases and how to take your first steps with Weaviate. You can even code along with JP and Daniel. Register for free!

• Thursday, April 4th | Online Workshop

  • Details & Registration

• Wednesday, April 17th | Online Workshop New TypeScript Client

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• Thursday, April 18th | Online Workshop

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Advanced Workshops with Zain

Join Zain Hasan in one of his Advanced Workshops to learn more about Multimodality, Advanced RAG, and how to leverage Weaviate in various use cases. Register for free!

• Tuesday, April 9th | Live Workshop Multimodality

  • Details & Registration

• Tuesday, April 23rd | Live Workshop Advanced RAG

  • Details & Registration

Remember to check out the provided links for all the details on how to sign up. We can't wait to meet you!

We’re hiring!

Check out our open roles:

• Senior Platform Engineer

• Research Engineer - Vector Databases

• Customer-focused SRE (US West Coast-based)

Have a look at our career page, more roles will open up in the upcoming weeks! 👀

Thank you for reading

Do you have any questions about Weaviate, vector databases, documentation, or other topics? Say hi at the Community Slack or join our Weaviate Forum, where you can engage in community conversations. Looking forward to your participation over the next two weeks!

Weaviate is open source. Check out our GitHub repository, and don't forget to star us while you're there ⭐

See you in two weeks,

Femke