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In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). You’ll learn what RAG is and how it can significantly improve the accuracy and relevance of AI responses by using your own data. You’ll understand the crucial differences between RAG and typical search engines or generative AI models, clarifying when RAG is truly needed. You’ll discover practical examples of when RAG becomes essential, especially for handling sensitive company information and proprietary knowledge. Tune in to learn when and how RAG can be a game-changer for your data strategy and when simpler AI tools will suffice! Watch the video here: Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-what-is-retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.mp3 Download the MP3 audio here. Need help with your company’s data and analytics? Let us know! Join our free Slack group for marketers interested in analytics! [podcastsponsor] Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode. Christopher S. Penn – 00:00 In this week’s In Ear Insights, let’s… Christopher S. Penn – 00:02 Talk about RAG—Retrieval augmented generation. Christopher S. Penn – 00:06 What is it? Christopher S. Penn – 00:07 Why do we care about it? Christopher S. Penn – 00:09 So Katie, I know you’re going in kind of blind on this. What do you know about retrieval augmented generation? Katie Robbert – 00:17 I knew we were going to be talking about this, but I purposely didn’t do any research because I wanted to see how much I thought I understood already just based on. So if I take apart just even the words Retrieval augmented generation, I think retrieval means it has… Katie Robbert – 00:41 To go find something augmented, meaning it’s… Katie Robbert – 00:44 Going to add on to something existing and then generation means it’s going to do something. So it’s going to find data added on to the whatever is existing, whatever that is, and then create something. So that’s my basic. But obviously, that doesn’t mean anything. So we have to put it in… Katie Robbert – 01:05 The context of generative AI. Katie Robbert – 01:07 So what am I missing? Christopher S. Penn – 01:09 Believe it or not, you’re not missing a whole lot. That’s actually a good encapsulation. Happy Monday. Retrieval augmented generation is a system for bringing in contextual knowledge to a prompt so that generative AI can do a better job. Probably one of the most well-known and easiest-to-use systems like this is Google’s free NotebookLM where you just put in a bunch of documents. It does all the work—the technical stuff of tokenization and embeddings and all that stuff. And then you can chat with your documents and say, ‘Well, what’s in this?’ In our examples, we’ve used the letters from the corner office books that we’ve written every year, and those are all of your cold opens from the newsletter. Christopher S. Penn – 01:58 And so you can go to a notebook and say, ‘What has Katie written about the five Ps?’ And it will list an exhaustive list. Christopher S. Penn – 02:07 Behind the scenes, there’s a bunch of… Christopher S. Penn – 02:10 Technical things that are going on. There is a database of some kind. There is a querying system that your generative AI tool knows to ask the database, and then you can constrain the system. So you can say, ‘I only want you to use this database,’ or you can use this database plus your other knowledge that you’ve already been trained on. Christopher S. Penn – 02:34 What’s important to know is that retrieval augmented generation, at least out-of-the-box, goes when you write that first prompt. Essentially what it does is it copies and pastes the relevant information for the database back into the prompt and then sends that onto the system. Christopher S. Penn – 02:48 So it all in a vanilla retrieval augmented generation system… Christopher S. Penn – 02:53 It only queries the database once. Katie Robbert – 02:56 So it sounds a lot like prior to generative AI being a thing, back when Chris, you and I were struggling through the coal mines of big enterprise companies. It sounds a lot like when my company was like, ‘Hey, we… Katie Robbert – 03:15 ‘Just got SharePoint and we’re going to… Katie Robbert – 03:17 ‘Build an intranet that’s going to be a data repository for everything, basically like an internal wiki.’ And it makes me cringe. Katie Robbert – 03:26 Every time I hear someone say the… Katie Robbert – 03:27 Word wiki meaning, like a Wikipedia, which is almost like what I—I can’t think of the word. Oh my God, it’s been so long. Katie Robbert – 03:43 All of those books that… Katie Robbert – 03:45 You look up things in encyclopedia. Katie Robbert – 03:47 Thank you. Katie Robbert – 03:48 Oh, my goodness. But it becomes like that internal encyclopedia of knowledge about your company or whatever. The thing is that topic, like there’s fandom, Wikipedias, and that kind of thing. In a very basic way, it kind of… Katie Robbert – 04:04 Sounds like that where you say, ‘Here’s all the information about one specific thing.’ Katie Robbert – 04:10 Now you can query it. Christopher S. Penn – 04:14 In many ways. It kind of is what separates it from older legacy databases and systems. Is that because you’re prompting in natural language, you don’t have to know how to write a SQL query. Christopher S. Penn – 04:27 You can just say, ‘We’re going to talk about this.’ And ideally, a RAG system is configured with relevant data from your data store. So if you have a SharePoint, for example, and you have Microsoft Copilot and… Christopher S. Penn – 04:42 You have Microsoft Knowledge Graph and you… Christopher S. Penn – 04:43 Have—you swiped the credit card so many times for Microsoft that you basically have a Microsoft-only credit card—then Copilot should be aware of all the documents in your Office 365 environment and in your SharePoint and stuff. And then be able to say, ‘Okay, Katie’s asking about accounting receipts from 2023.’ And it’s vectorized and converted all the knowledge into the specific language, the specific format that generative AI requires. And then when you write the prompt… Christopher S. Penn – 05:21 ‘Show me the accounting receipts that Chris… Christopher S. Penn – 05:23 ‘Filed from 2023, because I’m looking for inappropriate purchases like he charged $280 to McDonald’s.’ It would be able to go and… Christopher S. Penn – 05:33 Find the associated content within your internal… Christopher S. Penn – 05:36 Knowledge base and return and say, ‘Chris did in fact spend $80 at McDonald’s and we’re not sure why.’ Katie Robbert – 05:43 Nobody knows. Christopher S. Penn – 05:44 Nobody knows. Katie Robbert – 05:45 Well, okay, so retrieval augmented generation basically sounds like a system, a database that says, ‘This is the information I’m allowed to query.’ So someone’s going to ask me a… Katie Robbert – 06:01 Question and I’m going to bring it… Katie Robbert – 06:02 Back. At a very basic level, how is that different from a search engine where you ask a question, it brings back information, or a generative AI… Katie Robbert – 06:14 System now, such as a ChatGPT or… Katie Robbert – 06:16 A Google Gemini, where you say, ‘What are the best practices for SEO in 2025?’ How is this—how is retrieval augmented generation different than how we think about working with generative AI today? Christopher S. Penn – 06:33 Fundamentally, a RAG system is different because… Christopher S. Penn – 06:36 You are providing the data store and… Christopher S. Penn – 06:38 You may be constraining the AI to… Christopher S. Penn – 06:40 Say, ‘You may only use this information,’ or ‘You may—you should use this information first.’ Christopher S. Penn – 06:47 So let’s say, for example, to your… Christopher S. Penn – 06:48 Point, I want to write a blog post about project management and how to be an effective project manager. And I had a system like Pinecone or Weaviate or Milvus connected to the AI system of our choice, and in that was all the blog posts and newsletters you’ve ever written in the system configuration itself. I might say for any prompts that we pass this thing, ‘You can only use Katie’s newsletters.’ Or I might say, ‘You should use Katie’s newsletters first.’ So if I say, ‘Write a blog post about project management,’ it would refer… Christopher S. Penn – 07:25 To your knowledge first and draw from that first. And then if it couldn’t complete the… Christopher S. Penn – 07:29 Task, you would then go to its own knowledge or outside to other sources. So it’s a way of prioritizing certain kinds of information. Where you say, ‘This is the way I want it to be done.’ If you think about the Repel framework or the RACE framework that we use for prompting that context, or that priming… Christopher S. Penn – 07:47 Part is the RAG system. So instead of us saying, ‘What do… Christopher S. Penn – 07:50 ‘Know about this topic? What are the best practices? What are the common mistakes?’ Instead, you’re saying, ‘Here’s a whole big pile of data. Pick and choose from it the stuff that you think is most relevant, and then use that for the rest of the conversation.’ Katie Robbert – 08:04 And if you’re interested in learning more about the Repel framework, you can get… Katie Robbert – 08:08 That at TrustInsights.ai/repel. Now, okay, as I’m trying to wrap my head around this, how is retrieval augmented generation different from creating a custom… Katie Robbert – 08:22 Model with a knowledge base? Katie Robbert – 08:24 Or is it the same thing? Christopher S. Penn – 08:26 That’s the same thing, but at a much larger scale. When you create something like a GPT where you upload documents, there’s a limit. Christopher S. Penn – 08:34 It’s 10 megabytes per file, and I… Christopher S. Penn – 08:36 Think it’s 10 or either 10 or 20 files. So there’s a limit to how much data you can cram into that. If, for example, you wanted to make a system that would accurately respond about US Tax code is a massive database of laws. Christopher S. Penn – 08:51 It is. If I remember, there was once this visualization. Somebody put—printed out the US Tax code and put it on a huge table. The table collapsed because it was so heavy, and it was hundreds of thousands of pages. You can’t put that in knowledge—in knowledge files. There’s just too much of it. But what you can do is you could download it, put it into this one of these retrieval augmented generation databases. Christopher S. Penn – 09:15 And then say, ‘When I ask you… Christopher S. Penn – 09:17 ‘Tax questions, you may only use this database.’ Christopher S. Penn – 09:20 And so out of the hundreds of millions of pages of tax code, if I say, ‘How do I declare an exemption on Form 8829?’ It will go into that specific knowledge base and fish out the relevant portion. So think of it like NotebookLM with an unlimited amount of data you can upload. Katie Robbert – 09:41 So it sounds like a couple of things. One, it sounds like in order to use retrieval augmented generation correctly, you have… Katie Robbert – 09:49 To have some kind of expertise around what it is you’re going to query. Otherwise, you’re basically at a general Internet… Katie Robbert – 09:57 Search saying, ‘How do I get exemptions from tax, Form 8829?’ It’s just going to look for everything because you’re looking for everything because you don’t know specifically. Otherwise, you would have said, ‘Bring me to the U.S. Tax database…’ Katie Robbert – 10:17 ‘That specifically talks about Form 8820.’ You would have known that already. Katie Robbert – 10:23 So it sounds like, number one, you can’t get around again with—we talked about every week—there has to be some kind of subject matter expertise in order to make these things work. Katie Robbert – 10:36 And then number two, you have to have some way to give the system a knowledge block or access to the… Katie Robbert – 10:44 Information in order for it to be true. Retrieval augmented generation. Katie Robbert – 10:49 I keep saying it in the hopes that the words will stick. It’s almost like when you meet someone. Katie Robbert – 10:53 And you keep saying their name over and over again in the hopes that you’ll remember it. I’m hoping that I’m going to remember the phrase retrieval… Katie Robbert – 11:01 Just call it RAG, but I need to know what it stands for. Christopher S. Penn – 11:04 Yes. Katie Robbert – 11:05 Okay, so those are the two things that it sounds like need to be true. So if I’m your everyday marketer, which I am, I’m not overly technical. I understand technical theories and I understand technical practices. But if I’m not necessarily a power user of generative AI like you are, Chris, what are some—why do I need to understand what retrieval augmented generation is? How would I use this thing? Christopher S. Penn – 11:32 For the general marketer, there is not… Christopher S. Penn – 11:35 As many use cases for RAG as… Christopher S. Penn – 11:37 There is for others. So let me give you a really good example of where it is a prime use case. You are a healthcare system. You have patient data. You cannot load that to NotebookLM, but you absolutely could create a RAG system internally and then allow—within your own secured network—doctors to query all of the medical records to say, ‘Have we seen a case like this before? Hey, this person came in with these symptoms.’ Christopher S. Penn – 12:03 ‘What else have we seen?’ Christopher S. Penn – 12:04 ‘Are there similar outcomes that we can… Christopher S. Penn – 12:07 ‘We can go back and use as… Christopher S. Penn – 12:08 Sort of your own internal knowledge base with data that has to be protected. For the average marketing, I’m writing a social media post. You’re not going to use RAG because there’s no point in doing that. If you had confidential information or proprietary information that you did not feel comfortable loading into a NotebookLM, then a RAG system would make sense. So if you were to say maybe you have a new piece of software that your company is going to be rolling out and the developers actually did their job and wrote documentation and you didn’t want Google to be aware of it—wow, I know we’re in science fiction land here—you might load that to a RAG system, say, ‘Now let me help me… Christopher S. Penn – 12:48 ‘Write social posts about the features of… Christopher S. Penn – 12:50 ‘This new product and I don’t want anyone else to know about it.’ So super secret that even no matter what our contracts and service level agreements say, I just can’t put this in. Or I’m an agency and I’m working with client data and our contract says we may not use third parties. Regardless of the reason, no matter how safe you think it is, your contract says you cannot use third party. So you would build a RAG system internally for that client data and then query it because your contract says you can’t use NotebookLM. Katie Robbert – 13:22 Is it a RAG system if I… Katie Robbert – 13:26 Create a custom model with my brand… Katie Robbert – 13:28 Guidelines and my tone and use that model to outline content even though I’m searching the rest of the Internet for my top five best practices for SEO, but written as Katie Robbert from Trust Insights? Is it… Christopher S. Penn – 13:49 In a way, but it doesn’t use the… Christopher S. Penn – 13:51 Full functionality of a RAG system. Christopher S. Penn – 13:53 It doesn’t have the vector database underlying and stuff like that. From an outcome perspective, it’s the same thing. You get the outcome you want, which is prefer my stuff first. I mean, that’s really fundamentally what Retrieval Augmented Generation is about. It’s us saying, ‘Hey, AI model, you don’t understand this topic well.’ Like, if you were writing content about SEO and you notice that AI is spitting out SEO tips from 2012, you’re like, ‘Okay, clearly you don’t know SEO as well as we do.’ You might use a RAG system to say, ‘This is what we know to be true about SEO in 2025.’ Christopher S. Penn – 14:34 ‘You may only use this information because… Christopher S. Penn – 14:36 ‘I don’t trust that you’re going to do it right.’ Katie Robbert – 14:41 It’s interesting because what you’re describing sounds—and this is again, I’m just trying to wrap my brain around it. Katie Robbert – 14:48 It sounds a lot like giving a knowledge block to a custom model. Christopher S. Penn – 14:53 And it very much is. Katie Robbert – 14:54 Okay. Because I’m like, ‘Am I missing something?’ And I feel like when we start to use proper terminology like retrieval augmented generation, that’s where the majority of… Katie Robbert – 15:05 Us get nervous of like, ‘Oh, no, it’s something new that I have to try to understand.’ Katie Robbert – 15:09 But really, it’s what we’ve been doing all along. We’re just now understanding the proper terminology. Katie Robbert – 15:16 For something and that it does have… Katie Robbert – 15:18 More advanced features and capabilities. But for your average marketer, or maybe even your advanced marketer, you’re not going… Katie Robbert – 15:28 To need to use a retrieval augmented generation system to its full capacity, because… Katie Robbert – 15:34 That’s just not the nature of the work that you’re doing. And that’s what I’m trying to understand is it sounds like for marketers, for B2B marketers, B2C marketers, even operations, even project managers, sales teams, the everyday, you probably don’t need a RAG system. Katie Robbert – 15:59 I am thinking now, as I’m saying… Katie Robbert – 16:00 It out loud, if you have a sales playbook, that might be something that would be good proprietary to your company. Here’s how we do awareness. Katie Robbert – 16:12 Here’s how we do consideration, here’s how… Katie Robbert – 16:14 We close deals, here’s the… Katie Robbert – 16:16 Special pricing for certain people whose name end in Y and, on Tuesdays they get a purple discount. Katie Robbert – 16:23 And whatever the thing is, that is. Katie Robbert – 16:26 The information that you would want to load into, like a NotebookLM system. Katie Robbert – 16:30 Keep it off of public channels, and use that as your retrieval augmented generation system as you’re training new salespeople, as people are on the… Katie Robbert – 16:41 Fly closing, ‘Oh, wow, I have 20 deals in front of me and I… Katie Robbert – 16:43 ‘Can’t remember what six discount… Katie Robbert – 16:46 ‘Codes we’re offering on Thursdays. Let me go ahead and query the system as I’m talking and get the information.’ Katie Robbert – 16:51 Is that more of a realistic use case? Christopher S. Penn – 16:55 To a degree, yes. Christopher S. Penn – 16:57 Think about it. The knowledge block is perfect because we provide those knowledge blocks. We write up, ‘Here’s what Trust Insights is, here’s who it does.’ Think of a RAG system as a system that can generate a relevant knowledge block dynamically on the fly. Christopher S. Penn – 17:10 So for folks who don’t know, every Monday and Friday, Trust Insights, we have an internal checkpoint call. We check—go through all of our clients and stuff like that. And we record those; we have the transcripts of those. That’s a lot. That’s basically an hour-plus of audio every week. It’s 6,000 words. And on those calls, we discuss everything from our dogs to sales things. I would never want to try to include all 500 transcripts of the company into an AI prompt. Christopher S. Penn – 17:40 It would just blow up. Christopher S. Penn – 17:41 Even the biggest model today, even Meta Llama’s… Christopher S. Penn – 17:44 New 10 million token context window, it would just explode. I would create a database, a RAG system that would create all the relevant embeddings and things and put that there. And then when I say, ‘What neat… Christopher S. Penn – 17:57 ‘Marketing ideas have we come up with… Christopher S. Penn – 17:58 ‘In the last couple of years?’ It would go into the database and… Christopher S. Penn – 18:02 Fish out only the pieces that are relevant to marketing ideas. Christopher S. Penn – 18:05 Because a RAG system is controlled by… Christopher S. Penn – 18:08 The quality of the prompt you use. Christopher S. Penn – 18:10 It would then fish out from all 500 transcripts marketing ideas, and it would… Christopher S. Penn – 18:16 Essentially build the knowledge block on the… Christopher S. Penn – 18:18 Fly, jam it into the prompt at… Christopher S. Penn – 18:20 The end, and then that goes into… Christopher S. Penn – 18:22 Your AI system model of choice. And if it’s Chat GPT or Gemini or whatever, it will then spit out, ‘Hey, based on five years’ worth of Trust Insights sales and weekly calls, here are the ideas that you came up with.’ So that’s a really good example of where that RAG system would come into play. If you have, for example… Christopher S. Penn – 18:43 A quarterly strategic retreat of all your… Christopher S. Penn – 18:46 Executives and you have days and days of audio and you’re like, at the end of your… Christopher S. Penn – 18:52 Three-year plan, ‘How do we do… Christopher S. Penn – 18:53 ‘With our three-year master strategy?’ You would load all that into a RAG system, say, ‘What are the main strategic ideas we came up with over the last three years?’ And it’d be able to spit that out. And then you could have a conversation with just that knowledge block that it generated by itself. Katie Robbert – 19:09 You can’t bring up these… Katie Robbert – 19:11 Ideas on these podcast recordings and then… Katie Robbert – 19:13 Not actually build them for me. That, because these are really good use cases. And I’m like, ‘Okay, yeah, so where’s that thing? I need that.’ But what you’re doing is you’re giving that real-world demonstration of when a retrieval augmented generation system is actually applicable. Katie Robbert – 19:34 When is it not applicable? I think that’s equally as important. Katie Robbert – 19:37 We’ve talked a little bit about, oh, if you’re writing a blog post or that kind of thing. Katie Robbert – 19:41 You probably don’t need it. Katie Robbert – 19:42 But where—I guess maybe, let me rephrase. Katie Robbert – 19:45 Where do you see people using those… Katie Robbert – 19:47 Systems incorrectly or inefficiently? Christopher S. Penn – 19:50 They use them for things where there’s public data. So for example, almost every generative AI system now has web search built into it. So if you’re saying, ‘What are the best practices for SEO in 2025?’ You don’t need a separate database for that. Christopher S. Penn – 20:07 You don’t need the overhead, the administration, and stuff. Christopher S. Penn – 20:10 Just when a simple web query would have done, you don’t need it to assemble knowledge blocks that are relatively static. So for example, maybe you want to do a wrap-up of SEO best practices in 2025. So you go to Google deep research and OpenAI deep research and Perplexity Deep Research and you get some reports and you merge them together. You don’t need a RAG system for that. These other tools have stepped in. Christopher S. Penn – 20:32 To provide that synthesis for you, which… Christopher S. Penn – 20:34 We cover in our new generative AI use cases course, which you can find at Trust Insights AI Use cases course. I think we have a banner for that somewhere. I think it’s at the bottom in those cases. Yeah, you don’t need a RAG system for that because you’re providing the knowledge block. Christopher S. Penn – 20:51 A RAG system is necessary when you… Christopher S. Penn – 20:52 Have too much knowledge to put into a knowledge block. When you don’t have that problem, you don’t need a RAG system. And if the data is out there on the Internet, don’t reinvent the wheel. Katie Robbert – 21:08 But shiny objects and differentiators. Katie Robbert – 21:12 And competitive advantage and smart things. Christopher S. Penn – 21:16 I mean, people do talk about agentic RAG where you have AI agents repeatedly querying the database for improvements, which there are use cases for that. One of the biggest use cases for that is encoding, where you have a really big system, you load all of your code into your own internal RAG, and then you can have your coding agents reference your own code, figure out what code is in your code base, and then make changes to it that way. That’s a good use of that type of system. But for the average marketer, that is ridiculous. There’s no reason to that. That’s like taking your fighter jet to the grocery store. It’s vast overkill. When a bicycle would have done just fine. Katie Robbert – 22:00 When I hear the term agentic retrieval augmented generation system, I think of that image of the snake eating its tail because it’s just going to go around… Katie Robbert – 22:11 And around and around and around forever. Christopher S. Penn – 22:15 It’s funny you mentioned that because that’s a whole other topic. The Ouroboros—the snake eating scale—is a topic that maybe we’ll cover on a future show about how new models like Llama 4 that just came out on Saturday, how they’re being trained, they’re… Christopher S. Penn – 22:30 Being trained on their own synthetic data. So it really is. The Ouroboros is consuming its own tail. And there’s some interesting implications for that. Christopher S. Penn – 22:36 But that’s another show. Katie Robbert – 22:38 Yeah, I already have some gut reactions to that. So we can certainly make sure we get that episode recorded. That’s next week’s show. All right, so it sounds like for everyday use, you don’t necessarily need to… Katie Robbert – 22:54 Worry about having a retrieval augmented generation system in place. What you should have is knowledge blocks. Katie Robbert – 23:01 About what’s proprietary to your company, what you guys do, who you are, that kind of stuff that in… Katie Robbert – 23:08 And of itself is good enough. Katie Robbert – 23:10 To give to any generative AI system to say, ‘I want you to look at this information.’ That’s a good start. If you have proprietary data like personally identifying information, patient information, customer information—that’s where you would probably want to build… Katie Robbert – 23:27 More of a true retrieval augmented generation… Katie Robbert – 23:30 System so that you’re querying only that… Katie Robbert – 23:32 Information in a controlled environment. Christopher S. Penn – 23:35 Yep. Christopher S. Penn – 23:36 And on this week’s Livestream, we’re going… Christopher S. Penn – 23:37 To cover a couple of different systems. So we’ll look at NotebookLM and… Christopher S. Penn – 23:42 That should be familiar to everyone. Christopher S. Penn – 23:43 If it’s not, it needs to get on your radar. Soon. We’ll look at anythingLLM, which is how you can build a RAG system that is essentially no tech setup on your own laptop, assuming your laptop can run those systems. And then we can talk about setting up like a Pinecone or Weaviate or a Milvus for an organization. Because there are RAG systems you can run locally on your computer that are unique to you and those are actually a really good idea, and you can talk about that on the livestream. But then there’s the institutional version, which has much higher overhead for administration. But as we talked about in the use cases in this episode, there may be really good reasons to do that. Katie Robbert – 24:22 And if you are interested in that… Katie Robbert – 24:24 Livestream, that’ll be Thursday at 1:00 PM Eastern. Katie Robbert – 24:27 You can catch us on our YouTube channel, Trust Insights. Trust Insights AI YouTube and unsurprisingly, Chris. Katie Robbert – 24:34 I’m assuming we’re going to start with the 5P framework, because before you start building things, you probably have to have… Katie Robbert – 24:40 A good solid understanding of why you’re building it, how you’re going to build… Katie Robbert – 24:46 It, how it’s going to be used. Katie Robbert – 24:47 So if you’re a fan of the 5Ps like I am, tune in because… Katie Robbert – 24:51 We’ll be covering that first. Christopher S. Penn – 24:52 Exactly. Because there’s a very good sort of flowchart. Do you need RAG, yes or no? That before you start with the technology? Because like we said in this episode… Christopher S. Penn – 25:02 There’s a lot of places where it… Christopher S. Penn – 25:03 Just it’s overkill or it doesn’t make any sense to do it. All right, so if you’ve got some things you want to share about your experiences with RAG or you have questions about retrieval augmented generation, pop on by our free Slack group. 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Send us a textIn this thought-provoking episode of UX for AI, host Behrad engages with Bob Van Luijt in a philosophical exploration of creativity, language, and technology in the AI era. Bob, the founder of Weaviate (a vector database company), shares insights that blend his unique background in both music and technology.The conversation begins with Bob reflecting on his identity not as a musician or coder specifically, but as someone who "likes to make stuff" - emphasizing his passion for the creative process across different domains. He discusses his TED talk about language's fascinating ability to express infinite new ideas with a finite alphabet, drawing parallels between literature and software as systems of formal language.A central theme emerges around formal languages and their evolution alongside technology. Bob explains how spelling itself emerged from the practical needs of the printing press, drawing an analogy to how AI prompting languages are evolving today. As technology advances, we naturally develop more structured ways to communicate with it - a pattern repeating throughout history.The discussion turns to anxieties within creative communities about AI replacing human creativity. Bob dismisses these concerns, noting that similar fears have accompanied every technological advancement throughout history. He articulates a nuanced perspective: machine creativity and human creativity are fundamentally different, with humans uniquely able to assign aesthetic value to creative works. He challenges the notion that people in traditional "creative" roles have exclusive ownership of creativity, pointing out that creativity exists across all professions and endeavors.In the latter part of the conversation, Bob explains vector embeddings - the technology behind his company Weaviate. He describes how these multidimensional representations of information allow AI systems to understand relationships between concepts without explicit programming. By converting unstructured data (like text, images, and audio) into vector embeddings, organizations can unlock new capabilities for information retrieval and generation.The episode concludes with Bob's perspective on enterprise AI adoption, offering unexpected advice: companies should focus on bringing in talented Gen Z employees who intuitively understand emerging technologies. He suggests that the tension between experienced professionals and youth with "antennas" for what's new creates a productive dynamic for innovation.Throughout the conversation, both host and guest express excitement about the current moment as an unprecedented opportunity for creation and innovation. Their infectious enthusiasm culminates in a call to action for listeners to stop theorizing and start building, as the barriers to creation have never been lower in the age of AI.Interested in joining the podcast? DM Behrad on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/behradmirafshar/This podcast is made by Bonanza Studios, Germany's Premier Digital Design Studio:https://www.bonanza-studios.com/

Scaling a startup is harder than it looks. From hiring and funding to execution, most founders underestimate what it really takes to grow a business.In this episode,Bob van Luijt, CEO & co-founder of Weaviate, shares hishard-earned lessons from building an AI-native database company that has scaled to100+ employees worldwide.What you'll learn in this episode:✅ Whyyour ability to sell a vision matters more than the idea itself✅ Howopen source can fuel startup adoption before monetization✅ Thereal role of funding—why investment isborrowing from the future✅How to structure a winning startup team (and why hiring the right mix of people is critical)✅ Whymost founders overthink instead of just startingIf you're a founder, startup enthusiast, or thinking about launching your own business, this episode is amust-listen!

Episode #38 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Today Chad and Steve are talking with John Engates, Field CTO at Cloudflare and formerly the CTO and Rackspace. Their conversation includes a discussion of his time at Rackspace and what Rackspace might have done differently during the early rise of AWS, how Cloudflare's network now protects against threats in both directions not just against websites but also against desktop users, and how Rackspace is bringing AI inference to the edge by putting GPUs in their Points-of-Presence around the world. Our website: https://softwareinblue.com Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/softwareinblue⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue⁠ Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qfPUKO_rPmtvuB4nV87rg⁠ Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2⁠ Links mentioned in the episode: Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review: https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2024-year-in-review

Today's show: Alex sits down with two CEOs from companies freshly added to the TWIST500. We get a masterclass from Bob van Luijt of Weaviate, on vector databases helping AI and LLMs do what they do. An then Philip Johnston from Lumen Orbit explains his vision of building data centers in space! * Timestamps: (0:00) Alex kicks off the show. (0:58) Supreme Court ruling on TikTok and key market numbers (3:49) Interview introduction with Weaviate and Lumen Orbit CEOs (4:06) Deep dive into vector databases with Weaviate's Bob van Luijt. (8:23) Lemon. TWiST listeners get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist (11:35) Exploring deep learning, vector indexing, and Weaviate's open-source significance (18:03) Northwest Registered Agent. For just $39 plus state fees, Northwest will handle your complete business identity. Visit ⁠https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twist⁠ today. (19:32) Discussion on vector databases use cases and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) (27:17) Weaviate's business model, revenue streams, and growth (28:12) Vanta. TWiST listeners automate your SOC2 and get $1,000 off at http://www.vanta.com/twist (32:52) The future of AI, agentic architectures, and enterprise adoption (40:50) Lumen Orbit's vision for space-based data centers (42:54) Philip Johnston on the technical aspects of Lumen Orbit (49:12) Satellite demonstrators, technology challenges, and VC interest (53:26) Addressing chip obsolescence and cost advantages in space (56:21) Deployment strategies and competition in the space data center market (1:00:12) Strategies for staying ahead of competition and future plans for Lumen Orbit * Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com Check out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.com Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp Check out Weaviate: https://weaviate.io/ Check out Lumen Orbit: https://www.lumenorbit.com/ * Follow Bob: X: https://x.com/bobvanluijt LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobvanluijt * Follow Philip: X: https://x.com/johnstonphil LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnstonphilip/ * Follow Alex: X: https://x.com/alex LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm * Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis * Thank you to our partners: (8:23) Lemon. TWiST listeners get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist (18:03) Northwest Registered Agent. For just $39 plus state fees, Northwest will handle your complete business identity. Visit ⁠https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twist⁠ today. (28:12) Vanta. TWiST listeners automate your SOC2 and get $1,000 off at http://www.vanta.com/twist * Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe, Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland * Check out Jason's suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis * Follow TWiST: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com * Subscribe to the Founder University Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@founderuniversity1916

In derde ronde van het Nationaal AI Debat 2024, dé gelegenheid in Nederland waar over de positie van die technologie gediscussieerd wordt, staat de wetenschappelijke discussie over AI centraal - en hoeveel innovatie daarmee nu nog mogelijk is - onder leiding van Joe van Burik en Ben van der Burg. Daarvóór hoor je een presentatie van Carlo Ruiz, Vice President Enterprise Solutions & Operations bij NVIDIA. Richard Zoontjens komt ook aan het woord, als Lead Supercomputing Center bij de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. In de tweede debatronde ging het eerste panel hierover in debat, met als sprekers: Bob van Luijt (CEO en mede-oprichter van Weaviate); Felienne Hermans (Hoogleraar computerwetenschappen aan de Vrije Universiteit); Cynthia Liem (Associate Professor Multimedia Computing Group aan de Technische Universiteit Delft); en Stefan Leijnen (Lector AI aan de Hogeschool Utrecht én Head of EU Relations bij AiNed). BNR DigitaalDigitale technologie zit overal en beïnvloedt onze levens continue. Joe van Burik en Ben van der Burg spreken daarover elke woensdag met prominente gasten uit de tech-wereld, van onderzoekers en ondernemers tot politici en beslissers, in BNR Digitaal. Digitale technologie heeft op alle facetten van ons leven impact. BNR Digitaal houdt je op de hoogte van het laatste nieuws in de snel veranderende techwereld. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan de nieuwe reeks techwetten uit Europa: De Digital Services Act (DSA), Digital Markets Act (DMA) en AI Act. Welke impact heeft deze wetgeving op techbedrijven binnen en buiten ons continent? Loopt Europa voorop of zitten we onze eigen innovatie dwars? Hoe zien de techreuzen van de toekomst eruit? Blijft Apple dominant op de markt voor smartphones? Wat is de volgende stap van 'ons eigen' ASML uit Veldhoven? Maakt Mark Zuckerberg zijn droom van het Metaverse waar? En wie kan Nvidia nog bedreigen als het gaat om de beste AI-chips in datacenters? In BNR Digitaal is er aandacht voor een breed scala aan onderwerpen. Van AI naar regelgeving, van chips naar het metaverse en van de games-industrie naar Iedere week met de beste experts en beslissers uit hun werkveld. In een aantal uitgebreide gesprekken wordt de luisteraar wekelijks bijgepraat over de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen in de wereld van technologie. Tech bij BNRBNR Digitaal begon in 2011, onder leiding van Herbert Blankesteijn, als voortzetting op zijn vorige programma bij BNR; 'De Elektronische Eeuw'. In 2022 droeg hij het stokje over aan presentator Joe van Burik en co-host Ben van der Burg. BNR Digitaal opent iedere week met een kort gesprek tussen Joe en Ben, waarin zij kort bespreken wat hen bezig houdt. Daarna is er ruimte voor een langer 'hoofdgesprek', waarin het belangrijkste technologienieuws van die week centraal staat. Eén of twee prominente gasten schuiven aan. De tweede helft van het programma staat in de meeste gevallen in het teken van twee kortere gesprekken over andere techdossiers, met kenners en beslissers. In de periodieke rubriek 'De Zoekopdracht' gaat een redacteur of presentator van BNR Nieuwsradio specifiek op onderzoek voor BNR Digitaal, bijvoorbeeld door een evenement te bezoeken of vanuit hun eigen kennis te komen vertellen. Ook verschijnt er zo nu en dan een extra BNR Digitaal, om extra verslag te doen van grote gebeurtenissen in de techwereld, zoals het verschijnen van de Apple Vision Pro of de turbulente Twitter-overname van Elon Musk. In het Nationaal AI Debat, een spin-off van BNR Digitaal, gaan de belangrijkste AI-kenners- en ontwikkelaars met elkaar in gesprek over de toekomst van deze disruptieve technologie. Over het teamJoe van Burik volgt en analyseert de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen in tech, met scherpte, tempo en humor. Je hoort hem dagelijks op BNR Nieuwsradio met het belangrijkste nieuws in de Tech Update, en elke woensdagmiddag als presentator van BNR Digitaal met Ben van der Burg. In het bijzonder volgt Joe al twee decennia de wereld van videogames, waarover hij met bevlogen collega's en gasten praat in de podcast All in the Game. Eerder werkte hij als auto(sport)journalist voor diverse andere media en schreef het boek Formule 1 voor Dummies. Ben van der Burg is IT-ondernemer en voormalig topschaatser. Ben is bezeten door technologie en wordt enthousiast van gadgets, elektrische auto's, goede businessmodellen en de toekomst. Naast BNR Digitaal is hij wekelijks te horen als presentator van De Technoloog. Ook schuift hij regelmatig aan bij Vandaag Inside, Op1 of andere talkshows, om te praten over het laatste nieuws rond technologie. Daniël Mol is redacteur van BNR Digitaal. Hij voegde zich in 2022 bij het team en is ook presentator van de Cryptocast en redacteur bij De Technoloog.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this conversation, Krish Palaniappan introduces Weaviate, an open-source vector database, and explores its functionalities compared to traditional databases. The discussion covers the setup and configuration of Weaviate, hands-on coding examples, and the importance of vectorization and embeddings in AI. The conversation also addresses debugging challenges faced during implementation and concludes with a recap of the key points discussed. Takeaways Weaviate is an open-source vector database designed for AI applications. Vector databases differ fundamentally from traditional databases in data retrieval methods. Understanding vector embeddings is crucial for leveraging vector databases effectively. Hands-on coding examples help illustrate the practical use of Weaviate. Python is often preferred for AI-related programming due to its extensive support. Debugging is an essential part of working with new technologies like Weaviate. Vectorization optimizes database operations for modern CPU architectures. Embedding models can encode various types of unstructured data. The conversation emphasizes co-learning and exploration of new technologies. Future discussions may delve deeper into the capabilities of vector databases. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Weaviate and Vector Databases 06:58 Understanding Vector Databases vs Traditional Databases 12:05 Exploring Weaviate: Setup and Configuration 20:32 Hands-On with Weaviate: Coding and Implementation 34:50 Deep Dive into Vectorization and Embeddings 42:15 Debugging and Troubleshooting Weaviate Code 01:20:40 Recap and Future Directions Purchase course in one of 2 ways: 1. Go to https://getsnowpal.com, and purchase it on the Web 2. On your phone:     (i) If you are an iPhone user, go to http://ios.snowpal.com, and watch the course on the go.     (ii). If you are an Android user, go to http://android.snowpal.com.

Can AI be used to control cloud expenses? Host Mitch Ashley is joined by DoiT's Eduardo Mota and Weaviate's Jobi George on this episode of DevOps Dialogues, for a conversation on how companies can manage their cloud expenditures in the context of GenAI tool utilization and strategize reinvestment for growth. Their discussion covers: The intricate cost relationship between cloud architecture and GenAI, highlighting the importance of expert partnerships in developing effective AI solutions Utilizing data as a competitive advantage, from leveraging existing datasets to enhancing them through transformations or graph database conversions A comparative analysis of RAG (Retrievable Augmented Generation) versus Agents in reducing hallucinations and costs while optimizing efficiency Evaluating ROI for AI-driven projects, considering aspects like end-user payment, competitive differentiation, and operational efficiencies The role of managed services in the initial stages of cloud transition, and advanced strategies such as fine-tuning, distillation, or quantizing a model for growth  

Prawie rok temu zabraliśmy się za wdrożenie semantic searcha. Byliśmy bardzo podekscytowani tym projektem, bo po długich miesiącach teoretyzowania na ten temat wreszcie udało nam się stworzyć rozwiązanie pilotażowe, które mogliśmy pokazać testowej grupie użytkowników. Zgodnie z obietnicą złożoną w odcinku 61. wracamy do tego projektu. Rozmawiamy o tym jak się potoczyły jego losy, jakie były wyniki testów, jakie wyciągnęliśmy wnioski i co planujemy w przyszłości. Dźwięki wykorzystane w audycji pochodzą z kolekcji "107 Free Retro Game Sounds" dostępnej na stronie https://dominik-braun.net, udostępnianej na podstawie licencji Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Informacje dodatkowe: "#61 Tech Writer zaczyna wdrażać semantic search, czyli kilka praktycznych wskazówek na początek", Tech Writer koduje: https://techwriterkoduje.pl/blog/2023/12/22/61 "What is semantic search?", Elastic: https://www.elastic.co/what-is/semantic-search "Large language model (LLM)", Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model "What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation, aka RAG?", NVIDIA Blogs: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/what-is-retrieval-augmented-generation/ "Hybrid Search Explained", Weaviate: https://weaviate.io/blog/hybrid-search-explained Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/ "Semantic search", SBERT: https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/semantic-search/README.html#semantic-search

In this conversation, ⁠Krish Palaniappan⁠ interviews ⁠Bob van Luijt⁠, CEO of Weaviate, about the emerging field of vector databases and their significance in AI applications. Bob explains the concept of vector embeddings, the evolution of databases from SQL to NoSQL and now to vector databases, and the unique capabilities that vector databases offer for search and recommendation systems. They discuss the importance of developer experience, community feedback, and the future of database technology in the context of AI integration. Bob discusses the evolution of AI development, emphasizing the shift towards AI-native applications and the democratization of AI tools for developers. Bob explains the concept of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and its significance in enhancing AI applications. They discuss the integration of models with vector databases, the various data storage options available in Weaviate, and the importance of user-friendly documentation for developers. The conversation concludes with insights into the future of AI and the potential for innovative applications. Takeaways Vector databases are designed for AI and machine learning applications. Vector embeddings allow for semantic search, improving data retrieval. The developer experience is crucial for the adoption of new database technologies. Community feedback plays a significant role in shaping database features. Vector databases can handle large volumes of data efficiently. The architecture of vector databases differs from traditional databases. AI native databases are becoming essential for modern applications. Search systems have evolved from keyword-based to semantic-based. The future of databases will focus on AI integration and flexibility. Understanding vector embeddings is key to leveraging vector databases. The early adopters of AI were well-informed and specialized. In the post-JGPT era, all developers want to build with AI. AI-enabled applications can function without the model, while AI-native applications cannot. Weaviate focuses on AI-native applications at the core of their technology. The developer experience is crucial for building AI applications. RAG allows for the integration of generative models with database retrieval. Vector databases are essential for machine learning models. Weaviate offers multiple data storage options to meet various needs. Documentation should be accessible and easy to understand for developers. The future of AI applications is about seamless integration and user experience. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Vector Databases 02:46 Understanding Vector Embeddings 05:47 The Evolution of Databases: From SQL to Vector 09:08 Use Cases for Vector Databases 11:47 The Role of AI in Vector Databases 14:45 Storage and Indexing in Vector Databases 17:49 Building Applications with Vector Databases 21:01 Community Feedback and Market Trends 23:57 The Future of Database Technology 33:43 The Evolution of AI Development 39:08 Democratizing AI Application Development 41:52 Understanding Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) 47:07 Integrating Models with Vector Databases 50:17 Data Storage Options in Weaviate 53:34 Closing Thoughts and Future Directions

Episode #37 of "Can I get that software in blue?", a podcast by and for people engaged in technology sales. If you are in the technology presales, solution architecture, sales, support or professional services career paths then this show is for you! Today Chad is talking with Bob van Luijt, Founder and CEO at Weaviate, the premiere Open Source Vector Database company. Their conversation is wide ranging from Bob's background studying music composition at Berklee College of Music leading him to eventually decide that he should become a tech founder, to the early days and foundations of Weaviate and how he thinks the AI space will evolve to combat today's early problems of LLM hallucinations. Our website: https://softwareinblue.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/softwareinblue LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/softwareinblue Make sure to subscribe or follow us to get notified about our upcoming episodes: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8qfPUKO_rPmtvuB4nV87rg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-get-that-software-in-blue/id1561899125 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25r9ckggqIv6rGU8ca0WP2 Links mentioned in the episode: History of Weaviate: https://weaviate.io/blog/history-of-weaviate Bob's Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/bob_van_luijt_digital_technology_through_the_lens_of_language University of Kent Meshcode Memory News Article: https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/science/27956/a-new-theory-for-how-memories-are-stored-in-the-brain Meshcode Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33716664/ Antifragile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile_(book) Nearest Neighbor Benchmarks: https://ann-benchmarks.com/ OpenAI and Newscorp Licensing Deal: https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/news-corp-openai-licensing-deal-1236013734/ DSPY self-improving pipelines: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.03714

Hey folks, Alex here, back with another ThursdAI recap – and let me tell you, this week's episode was a whirlwind of open-source goodness, mind-bending inference techniques, and a whole lotta talk about talking AIs! We dove deep into the world of LLMs, from Alibaba's massive Qwen 2.5 drop to the quirky, real-time reactions of Moshi. We even got a sneak peek at Nous Research's ambitious new project, Forge, which promises to unlock some serious LLM potential. So grab your pumpkin spice latte (it's that time again isn't it?

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!00:00 - Enginears Intro.01:56 - Who is Bob?04:15 - What drew Bob to the economic side of software?06:06 - Who are Weaviate?09:03 - What are the use cases of Weaviate?14:25 - What was the evolution of Weaviate and how did you decide what elements of the product to turn in to a business?18:25 - Are you looking to monetise Weaviate?20:11 - What have you learnt from building the business and product?29:04 - What is Conway's law and how is it applied across Weaviate?33:03 - What are some principles you can apply to communication to ensure simplistic software?40:45 - What is Developer Experience like inside Weaviate?45:48 - What does the next 12 months look like inside Weaviate?48:05 - Bob Outro.48:44 - Enginears Outro.Guest:https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobvanluijt/https://weaviate.io/company/careersPowered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsEdited by: hunterdigital.co.ukHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

In gesprek met ondernemer Bob van Luijt die een van de succesvolste Nederlandse AI bedrijven aan het bouwen is met nu al een waarde van 200 miljoen. Hoe doet ie dat?

This episode features the second part of an engaging discussion between Raja Iqbal, Founder and CEO of Data Science Dojo, and Bob van Luijt, Co-founder and CEO of Weaviate, a prominent open-source vector database in the industry. Raja and Bob trace the evolution of AI over the years, the current LLM landscape, and its outlook for the future. They further dive deep into various LLM concepts such as RAG, fine-tuning, challenges in enterprise adoption, vector search, context windows, the potential of SLMs, generative feedback loop, and more. Lastly, Raja and Bob explore Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and whether it could be a reality in the near future. This episode is a must watch for anyone interested in a comprehensive outlook on the current state and future trajectory of AI.

Today we have Bob van Luijt, the CEO and founder of Weaviate on the show. Bob talks about building AI native applications and what that means, the role a vector database will play in the future of AI applications, and how Weaviate works under the hood. We also get into why a specialized vector database is needed versus using vectors as a feature within conventional databases. Bob van Luijt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobvanluijt/ Sean on X: https://x.com/seanfalconer Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com/

Summary Any software system that survives long enough will require some form of migration or evolution. When that system is responsible for the data layer the process becomes more challenging. Sriram Panyam has been involved in several projects that required migration of large volumes of data in high traffic environments. In this episode he shares some of the valuable lessons that he learned about how to make those projects successful. Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Data lakes are notoriously complex. For data engineers who battle to build and scale high quality data workflows on the data lake, Starburst is an end-to-end data lakehouse platform built on Trino, the query engine Apache Iceberg was designed for, with complete support for all table formats including Apache Iceberg, Hive, and Delta Lake. Trusted by teams of all sizes, including Comcast and Doordash. Want to see Starburst in action? 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Search for "Code Commentst" in your podcast player or go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/codecomments (https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/codecomments) today to subscribe. My thanks to the team at Code Comments for their support. Your host is Tobias Macey and today I'm interviewing Sriram Panyam about his experiences conducting large scale data migrations and the useful strategies that he learned in the process Interview Introduction How did you get involved in the area of data management? Can you start by sharing some of your experiences with data migration projects? As you have gone through successive migration projects, how has that influenced the ways that you think about architecting data systems? How would you categorize the different types and motivations of migrations? How does the motivation for a migration influence the ways that you plan for and execute that work? Can you talk us through one or two specific projects that you have taken part in? Part 1: The Triggers Section 1: Technical Limitations triggering Data Migration Scaling bottlenecks: Performance issues with databases, storage, or network infrastructure Legacy compatibility: Difficulties integrating with modern tools and cloud platforms System upgrades: The need to migrate data during major software changes (e.g., SQL Server version upgrade) Section 2: Types of Migrations for Infrastructure Focus Storage migration: Moving data between systems (HDD to SSD, SAN to NAS, etc.) Data center migration: Physical relocation or consolidation of data centers Virtualization migration: Moving from physical servers to virtual machines (or vice versa) Section 3: Technical Decisions Driving Data Migrations End-of-life support: Forced migration when older software or hardware is sunsetted Security and compliance: Adopting new platforms with better security postures Cost Optimization: Potential savings of cloud vs. on-premise data centers Part 2: Challenges (and Anxieties) Section 1: Technical Challenges Data transformation challenges: Schema changes, complex data mappings Network bandwidth and latency: Transferring large datasets efficiently Performance testing and load balancing: Ensuring new systems can handle the workload Live data consistency: Maintaining data integrity while updates occur in the source system Minimizing Lag: Techniques to reduce delays in replicating changes to the new system Change data capture: Identifying and tracking changes to the source system during migration Section 2: Operational Challenges Minimizing downtime: Strategies for service continuity during migration Change management and rollback plans: Dealing with unexpected issues Technical skills and resources: In-house expertise/data teams/external help Section 3: Security & Compliance Challenges Data encryption and protection: Methods for both in-transit and at-rest data Meeting audit requirements: Documenting data lineage & the chain of custody Managing access controls: Adjusting identity and role-based access to the new systems Part 3: Patterns Section 1: Infrastructure Migration Strategies Lift and shift: Migrating as-is vs. modernization and re-architecting during the move Phased vs. big bang approaches: Tradeoffs in risk vs. disruption Tools and automation: Using specialized software to streamline the process Dual writes: Managing updates to both old and new systems for a time Change data capture (CDC) methods: Log-based vs. trigger-based approaches for tracking changes Data validation & reconciliation: Ensuring consistency between source and target Section 2: Maintaining Performance and Reliability Disaster recovery planning: Failover mechanisms for the new environment Monitoring and alerting: Proactively identifying and addressing issues Capacity planning and forecasting growth to scale the new infrastructure Section 3: Data Consistency and Replication Replication tools - strategies and specialized tooling Data synchronization techniques, eg Pros and cons of different methods (incremental vs. full) Testing/Verification Strategies for validating data correctness in a live environment Implication of large scale systems/environments Comparison of interesting strategies: DBLog, Debezium, Databus, Goldengate etc What are the most interesting, innovative, or unexpected approaches to data migrations that you have seen or participated in? What are the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned while working on data migrations? When is a migration the wrong choice? What are the characteristics or features of data technologies and the overall ecosystem that can reduce the burden of data migration in the future? Contact Info LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/srirampanyam/) Parting Question From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today? Closing Announcements Thank you for listening! Don't forget to check out our other shows. Podcast.__init__ (https://www.pythonpodcast.com) covers the Python language, its community, and the innovative ways it is being used. The Machine Learning Podcast (https://www.themachinelearningpodcast.com) helps you go from idea to production with machine learning. Visit the site (https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com) to subscribe to the show, sign up for the mailing list, and read the show notes. 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This interview features Raja Iqbal, Founder and CEO of Data Science Dojo, engaging in a candid conversation with Bob van Luijt, Co-founder and CEO of Weaviate. Bob shares his journey, from early childhood and a fascination for tech to his entrepreneurial drive which eventually led to launching his own startup at a very young age. They also discuss the importance of standing out and continuously evolving and adapting in a highly competitive landscape, and the potential of AI in businesses. But it's not all sunshine and robots. Bob and Raja also discuss the triumphs and tribulations of leading their own start-ups, fostering a culture that fuels sustainable growth, and the key decisions that can make or break a young company. They also explore how to impress investors and build their trust so that funding isn't a constant worry. Packed with practical advice and valuable insights, this video is a must-watch for aspiring as well as seasoned AI entrepreneurs aiming to make their mark on the industry.

When you think about Gen AI applications, one of the first things that comes to mind is Vector Databases as part of the stack. In this episode, Tim and Juan chat with Bob van Luijt, co-founder of Weaviate, to demystify Vector Databases.

When you think about Gen AI applications, one of the first things that comes to mind is Vector Databases as part of the stack. In this episode, Tim and Juan chat with Bob van Luijt, co-founder of Weaviate, to demystify Vector Databases.

For this this episode, we're revisiting our chat with Sebastian Witalec from Weaviate. Sebastian spoke to us last year about his work at the company and his role as head of DevRel. Weaviate is rather popular in the AI space. It's an open source vector database that allows you to store data and vector embeddings from machine learning models. It's similar to putting information on an XY plane. Similar data points will have similar coordinates. This makes it easier to organise and use your data. We won't get too technical in this description, but safe to say Richard ensures that all the nerdy questions are answered during the episode. So Weaviate is a database; does this mean it's similar to the document stores of fifteen years ago? Well funnily enough, Sebastian's previous role to this one was DevRel at MongoDB. A year and a half ago, he met the CEO of Weaviate and had that lightbulb moment. He knew that this was a brand new way of doing data storage. So he jumped to Weaviate, and sure enough, a year and a half later, vector databases are all anyone is talking about, and Sebastian gets to be at the forefront of it. One of the most important things to Weaviate, and Sebastian personally, is joy. They want to not only create with it, but for people to experience it when they use Weaviate to build. They want their developers to take joy in their work and they believe that their wider community should be just as important as their customers. This is a really special perspective to have, and we were so glad Sebastian decided to join us for this discussion. Reach out to Sebastian here: https://dk.linkedin.com/in/sebawita Check out Weaviate's services here:‍ https://weaviate.io/ Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates and information about upcoming meetups: https://voxgig.substack.com/ Join the Dublin DevRel Meetup group here: www.devrelmeetup.com

Happy leap year day everyone, very excited to bring you a special once-in-a-4 year edition of ThursdAI

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from the tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Bob van Luijt, CEO and Co-Founder of Weaviate, a cloud native real-time vector database that has raised over $67 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Early Beginnings: Bob's foray into technology began with the internet's arrival at his home, leading to his first business in web development before turning 20, showcasing his entrepreneurial spirit from a young age. Transition to AI: Bob's career took a significant turn towards AI and machine learning around 2014-2015, culminating in the creation of Weaviate, driven by his fascination with vector embeddings and their potential for improving search and recommendation systems. Weaviate's Origin: Initially an open-source project, Weaviate evolved into a business in 2019. The venture into AI and machine learning infrastructure was fueled by the realization of the immense potential in creating an AI-native database. Marketing Strategy: Bob emphasizes the importance of a bottom-up marketing approach for B2B companies targeting developers, focusing on assisting developers in achieving success with Weaviate's technology rather than pushing the product itself. Future Vision: Looking ahead, Bob envisions Weaviate as an AI-native platform, emphasizing the shift towards AI-native infrastructure in software development and the goal of empowering developers to create AI-native applications seamlessly. Lessons in Fundraising: Bob's journey in fundraising revealed the importance of organic relationship building with investors, underscoring that genuine connections and a shared vision can lead to successful funding rounds without excessive friction.

In this episode, we sat down with Bob van Luijt (https://twitter.com/bobvanluijt), the CEO of Weaviate, diving into the cutting-edge world of vector databases and their role in the AI revolution.Weaviate is an open source, AI-native vector database that helps developers create intuitive and reliable AI-powered applications. Weaviate sets itself apart with its vector search engine that integrates machine learning directly into its core, enabling more nuanced and context-aware search capabilities for AI-driven applications.This conversation explores vector databases (the core infrastructure behind generative models), the role of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and how open source is driving commercial use cases.WEAVIATEWebsite - https://weaviate.ioTwitter - https://twitter.com/weaviate_ioBob van Luijt (Co-Founder & Co-CEO):LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobvanluijtTwitter - https://twitter.com/bobvanluijtMatt Turck:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/turck/Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattturckDATA DRIVEN NYCThis episode of the MAD Podcast was recorded live at Data Driven NYC, an event series organized by FirstMark Capital. The events are free and held monthly in New York, currently with the support of Foursquare.If you wish to attend and be notified of future events, please follow FirstMark on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/firstmark-capital-221557018301:00 What is RAG?06:20 Why is embedding models is such a hot topic right now?08:06 What is your assessment of RAG?09:53 Generative feedback loops11:46 What is Hybrid Search?15:15 What makes Weaviate special?16:53 What about security?17:45 Does RAG accelerated the need for real-time data?19:27 How to define good vector database? 22:11 What do you think about general purpose databases entering the field of vector-based databases?23:47 Interesting use cases of Weaviate25:27 What's your sense of the current state of the market?26:53 Open source vs commercial product on Weaviate29:23 How did it all get started?

Hihi, this is Alex, from Weights & Biases, coming to you live, from Yosemite! Well, actually I'm writing these words from a fake virtual yosemite that appears above my kitchen counter as I'm not a Vision Pro user and I will force myself to work inside this thing and tell you if it's worth it. I will also be on the lookout on anything AI related in this new spatial computing paradigm, like THIS for example! But back to rfeality for a second, we had quite the show today! We had the awesome time to have Junyang Justin Lin, a dev lead in Alibaba, join us and talk about Qwen 1.5 and QwenVL and then we had a deep dive into quite a few Acronyms I've been seeing on my timeline lately, namely DSPy, ColBERT and (the funniest one) RAGatouille and we had a chat with Connor from Weaviate and Benjamin the author of RAGatouille about what it all means! Really really cool show today, hope you don't only read the newsletter but listen on Spotify, Apple or right here on Substack. TL;DR of all topics covered: * Open Source LLMs * Alibaba releases a BUNCH of new QWEN 1.5 models including a tiny .5B one (X announcement)* Abacus fine-tunes Smaug, top of HF leaderboard based Qwen 72B (X)* LMsys adds more open source models, sponsored by Together (X)* Jina Embeddings fine tune for code* Big CO LLMs + APIs* Google rebranding Bard to Gemini and launching Gemini Ultra (Gemini)* OpenAI adds image metadata (Announcement)* OpenAI keys are now restricted per key (Announcement)* Vision & Video* Bria - RMBG 1.4 - Open Source BG removal that runs in your browser (X, DEMO)* Voice & Audio* Meta voice, a new apache2 licensed TTS - (Announcement)* AI Art & Diffusion & 3D* Microsoft added DALL-E editing with "designer" (X thread)* Stability AI releases update to SVD - video 1.1 launches with a webUI, much nicer videos* Deep Dive with Benjamin Clavie and Connor Shorten show notes:* Benjamin's announcement of RAGatouille (X)* Connor chat with Omar Khattab (author of DSPy and ColBERT) - Weaviate Podcast* Very helpful intro to ColBert + RAGatouille - NotionOpen Source LLMs Alibaba releases Qwen 1.5 - ranges from .5 to 72B (DEMO)With 6 sizes, including 2 new novel ones, from as little as .5B parameter models to an interesting 4B, to all the way to a whopping 72B, Alibaba open sources additional QWEN checkpoints. We've had the honor to have friend of the pod Junyang Justin Lin again, and he talked to us about how these sizes were selected, that even thought this model beats Mistral Medium on some benchmarks, it remains to be seen how well this performs on human evaluations, and shared a bunch of details about open sourcing this.The models were released with all the latest and greatest quantizations, significantly improved context length (32K) and support for both Ollama and Lm Studio (which I helped make happen and am very happy for the way ThursdAI community is growing and connecting!) We also had a chat about QwenVL Plus and QwebVL Max, their API only examples for the best open source vision enabled models and had the awesome Piotr Skalski from Roborflow on stage to chat with Junyang about those models! To me a success of ThursdAI, is when the authors of things we talk about are coming to the show, and this is Junyang second appearance, which he joined at midnight at the start of the chinese new year, so greately appreciated and def. give him a listen! Abacus Smaug climbs to top of the hugging face leaderboard Junyang also mentioned that Smaug is now at the top of the leaderboards, coming from Abacus, this is a finetune of the previous Qwen-72B, not even this new one. First model to achieve an average score of 80, this is an impressive appearance from Abacus, though they haven't released any new data, they said they are planning to! They also said that they are planning to finetune Miqu, which we covered last time, the leak from Mistral that was acknowledged by Arthur Mensch the CEO of Mistral.The techniques that Abacus used to finetune Smaug will be released an upcoming paper! Big CO LLMs + APIsWelcome Gemini Ultra (bye bye Bard) Bard is no longer, get ready to meet Gemini. it's really funny because we keep getting cofusing naming from huge companies like Google and Microsoft. Just a week ago, Bard with Gemini Pro shot up to the LMSYS charts, after regular gemini pro API were not as close. and now we are suppose to forget that Bard even existed?

Don't be afraid of giants. At some point, they have to sleep. In this episode, we chat with Bob van Luijt, diving into his journey of facing challenges, conquering obstacles, and finding success. Let's get started on a conversation that's all about building open-source platforms, communities, and disrupting tech giants. Meet Bob van Luijt Bob's Role as an AI Leader at Weaviate Bob van Luijt is the CEO and Co-founder of Weaviate. Weaviate is a cloud-native, real-time vector database that allows users to bring machine-learning models to scale. They believe that the next wave of software infrastructure is AI-first and that a strong open-source community is a basis for creating high-quality software. Bob's Other Work in Technology and AI Currently, Bob is also a Chairman for the Creative Software Foundation, a nonprofit located in The Netherlands with a sole focus on open source and creative software. He has a great love for all things related to tech, machine learning, digital business, open-source, fashion, and music. Before founding Weaviate, Bob founded Kubrickology, a consultancy agency that uses emerging technologies to design and develop innovative solutions for everyday problems. Here, he worked with companies like ING Bank and Vodafone Ziggo. At the age of 15, Bob started freelance software engineering for a variety of e-commerce websites for SME companies in The Netherlands. Open-Source, Community, and Generative AI In this exclusive analytics podcast episode, Bob shares: His experience studying music and how it's helped his current career Shifting from IoT to vector databases Why it was difficult for people to grasp the concept immediately The disruption theory Why big companies like Google aren't doing what startups do His current role as the CEO and co-founder of Weaviate Why he built Weaviate as open-source His perspective on copycats The secret to building an open-source community Use cases for Generative AI in the community Generative Feedback Loops If you are an aspiring developers or organisation leader aiming to embark on a similar path in the realm of open-source, this is the episode you do not want to miss. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/analyticsshow/message

Discover the world of vector databases with Bob van Luijt, CEO of Weaviate. In this engaging exploration, uncover the unique benefits of vector databases in comparison to traditional databases, and their impact on generative AI and data management. Ideal for both tech enthusiasts and professionals, this insightful discussion dives into the ways vector databases are revolutionizing data handling and contributing to a digitally advanced future. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tonyphoang/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tonyphoang/support

Po długich miesiącach gadania, przyszedł czas na działanie - wreszcie rozpoczęliśmy wdrażanie semantic searcha! Przejście od teorii do praktyki było dość trudne, dlatego mamy dla Was garść informacji, które ułatwią Wam wejście w temat. Rozmawiamy o tym czym jest semantic search, jakie nam daje korzyści w porównaniu do tradycyjnego wyszukiwania, co musimy mieć, żeby go wdrożyć, jak połączyć ze sobą poszczególne elementy całej układanki i jak takie rozwiązanie zaimplementować. Informacje dodatkowe: "What is semantic search?", Elastic: https://www.elastic.co/what-is/semantic-search "Large language model (LLM)", Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model "What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation, aka RAG?", NVIDIA Blogs: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/what-is-retrieval-augmented-generation/ "Hybrid Search Explained", Weaviate: https://weaviate.io/blog/hybrid-search-explained "Semantic search", SBERT: https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/semantic-search/README.html#semantic-search Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/ PyTorch: https://pytorch.org/ TensorFlow: https://www.tensorflow.org/ Node.js: https://nodejs.org/en Elasticsearch: https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/ "Build Semantic-Search with Elastic search and BERT vector embeddings. ( From scratch )", Abid Saudagar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwPR9eig7w Jupyter Notebook: https://jupyter.org/ SentenceTransformers Documentation: https://www.sbert.net/ "k-nearest neighbor (kNN) search", Elastic Docs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/knn-search.html Transformers.js, Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers.js/index "Export to ONNX", Hugging Face docs: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/serialization "Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Semantic Search", SBERT: https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/semantic-search/README.html#symmetric-vs-asymmetric-semantic-search "Tutorial: semantic search with ELSER", Elastic Docs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/semantic-search-elser.html "The Beginner's Guide to Text Embeddings", Deepset: https://www.deepset.ai/blog/the-beginners-guide-to-text-embeddings

Bob van Luijt is the CEO and Founder of Weaviate, an open-source vector database company that helps contribute to the advancement of AI technology. Throughout this episode, Bob and I discuss the complexities of moving from an open-source project to building an open-source company, and the challenges that come with monetization strategies. Bob shares insightful anecdotes around why it's important to be careful that you're measuring the right things for the right reasons, and also emphasizes the importance of determining the best approach to profitability.  Highlights:Intro (00:00)I introduce Bob van Luijt who is the CEO and Founder of Weaviate, and he provides a little bit of context about himself and his company (01:00)Bob gives us the run-down on Weaviate's operations, including fundraising, staffing, and monetization data (02:04)How the Weaviate project became the company it is today (04:03)The value that open-source brings to Weaviate's business model (11:21)Bob and I discuss the disadvantages to building a company around an open-source project (17:55)The complexities of having an open-source project that is used within other companies and products/projects (20:19)How Bob and Weaviate have approached monetization (22:18)The most interesting mistakes Bob feels he's made along the way in his journey to build Weaviate (24:37)Bob tells us more about his decision to shift from professional services to a product-led approach (25:50)Bob and I discuss the complex catch-22 of focusing on either profitability or growth as an open-source founder (28:39)How Bob filtered through product feedback and feature requests when first shifting to a product-led approach (32:19)Bob's advice to people who want to be a part of the open-source ecosystem (37:54)How listeners can connect with Bob and learn more about Weaviate (39:13)Links:BobLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobvanluijt/Twitter: https://twitter.com/bobvanluijtCompany: https://weaviate.io/

Ryan is joined by Bob Van Lujit in this episode to discuss his open-source AI company Weaviate. Listen in as Ryan and Bob break down Weaviate's unique vector database technology powering the next wave of AI applications. Bob talks about the business model behind many open-source infrastructure companies, how Weaviate helps developers easily build and scale AI solutions, and where Bob sees AI transforming businesses over the next 12 months. Join 2,500+ readers getting weekly practical guidance to scale themselves and their companies using Artificial Intelligence and Revenue Cheat Codes.   Explore becoming Superhuman here: https://superhumanrevenue.beehiiv.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Weaviate provides the core infrastructure for storing and indexing vector embeddings from AI models to enable faster search and retrieval. Open-source companies like Weaviate make money by offering additional services like support, training, and managed services around their free technology. Weaviate targets developers through a "bottom-up" product-led growth strategy focused on helping them succeed with AI applications. Current AI systems are limited by their binary nature, but new probabilistic AI promises opportunities to build more nuanced applications. Combining generative AI models with vector databases enables more complex AI agents for legal services, cybersecurity, and other business use cases BEST MOMENTS “I was a part of a community called a Google developer expert community. And I was invited in 2016 to Google IO. And during the keynote, Sunder Pichai, the CEO of Google went on stage and he said, we got to move from mobile first to AI first." “How do we make sure that, that we really can go to production and that we can bring it to their customers as well? Because AI, and I don't mean this, I really mean this, it's like a seismic shift in how we build technology” "If you store it and you can't get it out anymore, it's useless. The problem we had was that most search was always keyword based." "We passed that point of good enough. So that opened the eyes of a lot of people. It's like, Hey, actually we can, we can build stuff with this." Ryan Staley Founder and CEO Whale Boss ryan@whalesellingsystem.com www.ryanstaley.io Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecretsThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

This episode features a panel discussion with Mikiko Bazeley, Head of MLOps at Featureform; Zain Hasan, Senior Developer Advocate at Weaviate; and Tuana Celik, Developer Advocate at deepset.In this episode, Mikiko, Zain, and Tuana discuss what open source data means to them, how their companies fit into the AI-first ecosystem, and how jobs will need to evolve with the AI-native stack.-------------------“We're almost part of a fancy new AI robot kitchen that you'd find in Tokyo, in some ways. I see a virtual feature store as, yes, you can have a bunch of your ingredients tossed into a closet. Or, what you can do is you can essentially have a nice way to organize them. You can have a way to label them, to capture information.” – Mikiko Bazeley“I really like that analogy as well. I like how Mikiko put it where a vector search engine is really extracting value from what you've already got. [...] So where I see vector search engines, really, is if we think of these embedding providers as the translators to take all of our unstructured data and bring it into vector space into a common machine language, vector search engines are essentially the workhorses that allow us to compute and search over these objects in vectorized format. They're essentially the calculators of the AI stack.” – Zain Hasan“Haystack, I would really position as the kitchen. I need Mikiko to bring the apples. I need Zain to bring the pears. I need Hugging Face or OpenAI to bring the oranges to make a good fruit salad. But, Haystack will provide the spoons and the pans and the knives to make that into something that works together.” – Tuana Celik-------------------Episode Timestamps:(02:58): What open source data means to the panelists(09:11): What interested the panelists about AI/ML(24:10): Mikiko explains Featureform(27:00): Zain explains Weaviate(30:23): Tuana explains deepset(36:00): The panelists discuss how their companies fit into the AI-first ecosystem(44:58): How jobs need to evolve with the AI-native stack(54:35): Executive producer, Audra Montenegro's backstage takeaways-------------------Links:LinkedIn - Connect with MikikoVisit FeatureformLinkedIn - Connect with ZainVisit WeaviateLinkedIn - Connect with TuanaVisit deepsetVisit Data-centric AI

Dans cet épisode, Emmanuel et Guillaume reviennent sur les nouveautés de l'écosystème Java (Java 21, SDKman, Temurin, JBang, Quarkus, LangChain4J, …) mais aussi sur des sujets plus généraux comme Unicode, WebAssembly, les bases de données vectorielles, et bien d'autres sujets orientés IA (LLM, ChatGPT, Anthropic, …). Enregistré le 20 octobre 2023 Téléchargement de l'épisode LesCastCodeurs-Episode-301.mp3 News Langages Gérer facilement des versions multiples de Java grâce à SDKman https://foojay.io/today/easily-manage-different-java-versions-on-your-machine-with-sdkman/ sdkman support java mais aussi graalVM, jbang, Quarkus, Micronaut etc (les CLIs) la CLI UI est toujours un peu chelou donc cet article est utile pour un rappel Tous les changements de Java 8 à Java 21 https://advancedweb.hu/a-categorized-list-of-all-java-and-jvm-features-since-jdk-8-to-21/ Nous avons déjà partagé ce lien par le passé, mais l'article est mis à jour à chaque release majeure de Java pour couvrir les dernières nouveautés. Et en particulier, Java 21 qui vient de sortir. Eclipse Temurin ne va pas sortir son Java 21 tout de suite https://adoptium.net/en-GB/blog/2023/09/temurin21-delay/ Apparemment, une nouvelle licence pour le TCK (qui valide la compliance) doit être approuvée Oracle semble avoir sorti de nouveaux termes, à quelques jours de la sortie officielle de Java 21 la mise a jour du TCK est arrivée le 9 octobre. comment Microsoft a pu sortir le sien avant? Le Financial Times propose un bel article avec des animations graphiques expliquant le fonctionnement de l'architecture de réseau de neurones de type transformers, utilisé dans les large language model https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/ LLM via relation entre les mots notion de transformer qui parse les “phrases” entières ce qui capture le contexte discute le beam search vs greedy search pour avoir pas le prochain mot mais l'ensemble de prochains mots parle d'hallucination l'article parle de texte/vector embeddings pour représenter les tokens et leurs relations aux autres il décrit le processus d'attention qui permet aux LLM de comprendre les associations fréquentes entre tokens le sujet des hallucinations est couvert et pour éviter des hallucinations, utilisation du “grounding” The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/ Un bel article qui explique Unicode, les encodings comme UTF-8 ou UTF-16, les code points, les graphèmes, les problèmes pour mesurer une chaîne de caractères, les normalisation de graphèmes pour la comparaison de chaîne Si vous voulez mieux comprendre Unicode, c'est l'article à lire ! unicode c'est un mapping chiffre - caractère en gros 1,1 millions disponibles dont 15% définis et 11% pour usage privé, il reste de la place. Et non les meojis ne prennent pas beaucoup de place. usage prive est par exemple utilise par apple pour délivrer le logo apple dans les fonts du mac (mais pas ailleurs) UTF est l'encoding du chiffre de l'unicode UTF-32: 4 bytes tout le temps, UTF-8, encodage variable de 1 a 4 bytes (compatible avec ASCII) ; il a aussi un peu de détection d'erreurs (prefix des bytes différents), optimise pour le latin et les textes techniques genre HTML problème principal, on peut pas déterminer la taille en contant les bytes ni aller au milieu d'une chaine directement (variable) UTF-16 utilise 2 ou plus de bytes et est plus sympa pour les caractères asiatiques un caractère c'est en fait un graphème qui peut être fait de plusieurs codepoints : é = e U+0065 + ´ U+0301 ; ☹️ (smiley qui pleure) is U+2639 + U+FE0F D'ailleurs selon le langage “:man-facepalming::skin-tone-3:”.length = 5, 7 (java) ou 17 (rust) ou 1 (swift). Ça dépend de l'encodage de la chaine (UTF-?). ““I know, I'll use a library to do strlen()!” — nobody, ever.” En java utiliser ICU https://github.com/unicode-org/icu Attention java.text.BreakIterator supporte une vieille version d'unicode donc c'est pas bon. Les règles de graphème change a chaque version majeure d'unicode (tous les ans) certains caractères comme Å ont plusieurs représentations d'encodage, donc il ya de la normalisation: NFD qui éclate en pleins de codepoints ou NDC qui regroupe au max normaliser avant de chercher dans les chaines certains unicode sont représentés différemment selon le LOCALE (c'est la life) et ça continue dans l'article JBang permet d'appeler Java depuis Python via un pypi https://jbang.dev/learn/python-with-jbang/ c'est particulièrement interessant pour appeler Java de son Jupyter notebook ça fait un appel a un autre process (mais installe jbang et java au besoin) Librairies Quarkus 3.4 est sorti https://quarkus.io/blog/quarkus-3-4-1-released/ un CVE donc mettez a jour vos Quarkus support de Redis 7.2 plus de granularité sur la desactivation de flyway globalement ou par data source. Depuis l'activation transparente et automatique en 3.3 quarkus update est l'approche recommandée pour mettre à jour. Comment tester si un thread virtuel “pin” https://quarkus.io/blog/virtual-threads-3/ exemple avec quarkus comment générer la stackstrace et un utilitaire JUnit qui fait échouer le test quand le thread pin une série d'articles de Clements sur les threads virtuels et comment les utiliser dans quarkus https://quarkus.io/blog/virtual-thread-1/ À la découverte de LangChain4J, l'orchestration pour l'IA générative en Java https://glaforge.dev/posts/2023/09/25/discovering-langchain4j/ Guillaume nous parle du jeune projet LangChain4J, inspiré du projet Python LangChain, qui permet d'orchestrer différents composants d'une chaine d'IA générative Grâce à ce projet, les développeurs Java ne sont pas en reste, et n'ont pas besoin de se mettre à coder en Python LangChain4J s'intègre avec différentes bases vectorielles comme Chroma ou WeAviate, ainsi qu'une petite base en mémoire fort pratique LangChain4J supporte l'API PaLM de Google, mais aussi OpenAI Il y a différents composants pour charger / découper des documents et pour calculer les vector embeddings des extraits de ces documents Vidéo enregistrée à Devoxx sur ce thème : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioTPfL9cd9k Infrastructure OpenTF devient OpenTofu https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/announcing-opentofu Dans les Dockerfiles, on peut utiliser la notation “heredocs” exclu fondations et sociétés commerciales, inclues défini des classes de logiciels de non critique a classe 1 et 2 doit faire un risk assessment avant de livrer (pas de bug de sécurité, secure par défaut, security update) de la doc sur le process d'évaluation des risques et un SBOM notamment notifier d'ici 24h d'une vulnerabilité il y a une campagne #fixthecra Des protestations contre l'ouverture des modèles d'IA de Meta https://spectrum.ieee.org/meta-ai ouvrir les modèles et leurs poids permets aux acteurs de bypasser les restrictions (biais etc) donc des gens de Meta protestent contre la politique open source de Meta dans ce domaine l'argument c'est qu'un modele derrière une API peut êtres éteint les partisans de l'avis contraire pointent que contourner les restrictions de ChatGPT ont été triviales jusqu'à présent et que l'obscurité amène a un déficit de transparence, de connaissance du public. va affecté les chercheurs indépendants cela dit ce n'est pas open source pur car les sources et comment le modele est entrainé est peu publié OSI travaille a une définition d'OpenSource AI Un site pour mettre une pause à l'IA: https://pauseai.info/ NOUS RISQUONS DE PERDRE LE CONTRÔLE NOUS RISQUONS L'EXTINCTION DE L'HUMANITÉ NOUS AVONS BESOIN D'UNE PAUSE NOUS DEVONS AGIR IMMÉDIATEMENT Il y a un agenda des manifestations a travers le monde (Londres, Bruxelles, SFO… mais où est Paris?) Twitter/Discord/Facebook/TikTok/LinkedIn Alors qui va gagner la course à l'extinction de l'humanité? la guerre, le réchauffement climatique ou l'IA? Sarah Connor !!! Outils de l'épisode Un querty adapté pour les lettres à accent https://altgr-weur.eu/ (via Thomas Recloux) Conférences Toutes les vidéos de Devoxx Belgique sont disponibles https://www.youtube.com/@DevoxxForever Hacktoberfest, édition 10 https://hacktoberfest.com/ La liste des conférences provenant de Developers Conferences Agenda/List par Aurélie Vache et contributeurs : 26 octobre 2023 : Codeurs en Seine - Rouen (France) 26-27 octobre 2023 : Agile Tour Bordeaux - Bordeaux (France) 26-29 octobre 2023 : SoCraTes-FR - Orange (France) 30-31 octobre 2023 : Asynconf Event - Paris (France) & Online 2-3 novembre 2023 : Agile Tour Nantes - Nantes (France) 3 novembre 2023 : XCraft - Lyon (France) 7 novembre 2023 : DevFest Sophia-Antipolis - Sophia-Antipolis (France) 10 novembre 2023 : BDX I/O - Bordeaux (France) 15 novembre 2023 : DevFest Strasbourg - Strasbourg (France) 16 novembre 2023 : DevFest Toulouse - Toulouse (France) 18-19 novembre 2023 : Capitole du Libre - Toulouse (France) 23 novembre 2023 : DevOps D-Day #8 - Marseille (France) 23 novembre 2023 : Agile Grenoble - Grenoble (France) 30 novembre 2023 : PrestaShop Developer Conference - Paris (France) 30 novembre 2023 : WHO run the Tech - Rennes (France) 6-7 décembre 2023 : Open Source Experience - Paris (France) 6-8 décembre 2023 : API Days Paris - Paris (France) 7 décembre 2023 : Agile Tour Aix-Marseille - Gardanne (France) 7-8 décembre 2023 : TechRocks Summit - Paris (France) 8 décembre 2023 : DevFest Dijon - Dijon (France) 31 janvier 2024-3 février 2024 : SnowCamp - Grenoble (France) 1 février 2024 : AgiLeMans - Le Mans (France) 15-16 février 2024 : Touraine Tech - Tours (France) 6-7 mars 2024 : FlowCon 2024 - Paris (France) 14-15 mars 2024 : pgDayParis - Paris (France) 19-22 mars 2024 : KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 - Paris (France) 28-29 mars 2024 : SymfonyLive Paris 2024 - Paris (France) 17-19 avril 2024 : Devoxx France - Paris (France) 18-20 avril 2024 : Devoxx Greece - Athens (Greece) 25-26 avril 2024 : MiXiT - Lyon (France) 25-26 avril 2024 : Android Makers - Paris (France) 8-10 mai 2024 : Devoxx UK - London (UK) 24 mai 2024 : AFUP Day Nancy - Nancy (France) 24 mai 2024 : AFUP Day Poitiers - Poitiers (France) 24 mai 2024 : AFUP Day Lille - Lille (France) 24 mai 2024 : AFUP Day Lyon - Lyon (France) 6-7 juin 2024 : DevFest Lille - Lille (France) 19-20 septembre 2024 : API Platform Conference - Lille (France) & Online 7-11 octobre 2024 : Devoxx Belgium - Antwerp (Belgium) 10-11 octobre 2024 : Volcamp - Clermont-Ferrand (France) Nous contacter Pour réagir à cet épisode, venez discuter sur le groupe Google https://groups.google.com/group/lescastcodeurs Contactez-nous via twitter https://twitter.com/lescastcodeurs Faire un crowdcast ou une crowdquestion Soutenez Les Cast Codeurs sur Patreon https://www.patreon.com/LesCastCodeurs Tous les épisodes et toutes les infos sur https://lescastcodeurs.com/

On this episode, we've got Sebastian Witalec from Weaviate to chat to us about his work at the company and his role as head of DevRel. Weaviate is rather popular in the AI space. It's an open source vector database that allows you to store data and vector embeddings from machine learning models. It's similar to putting information on an XY plane. Similar data points will have similar coordinates. This makes it easier to organise and use your data. We won't get too technical in this description, but safe to say Richard ensures that all the nerdy questions are answered during the episode. So Weaviate is a database; does this mean it's similar to the document stores of fifteen years ago? Well funnily enough, Sebastian's previous role to this one was DevRel at MongoDB. A year and a half ago, he met the CEO of Weaviate and had that lightbulb moment. He knew that this was a brand new way of doing data storage. So he jumped to Weaviate, and sure enough, a year and a half later, vector databases are all anyone is talking about, and Sebastian gets to be at the forefront of it. One of the most important things to Weaviate, and Sebastian personally, is joy. They want to not only create with it, but for people to experience it when they use Weaviate to build. They want their developers to take joy in their work and they believe that their wider community should be just as important as their customers. This is a really special perspective to have, and we're so glad Sebastian decided to join us for this discussion. Reach out to Sebastian here: https://dk.linkedin.com/in/sebawita Check out Weaviate's services here:‍ https://weaviate.io/ Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates and information about upcoming meetups: https://voxgig.substack.com/ Join the Dublin DevRel Meetup group here: www.devrelmeetup.com

Highlights from this week's conversation include:How music impacted Bob's data journey (3:16)Music's relationship with creativity and innovation (11:38)The genesis of Weaviate and the idea of vector databases (14:09)The joy of creation (19:02)OLAP Databases (22:21)The progression of complexity in databases (24:31)Vector database (29:23)Scaling suboptimal algorithms (34:34)The future of vector space representation (35:51)Databases role in different industries (39:14)The brute force approach to discovery (45:57)Retrieval augmented generation (51:26)How generative model interacts with the database (57:55)Final thoughts and takeaways (1:03:20)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, the CDP for developers. Each week we'll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

In this bonus conversation, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with Bob van Luijt of Weaviate.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special Guest Bob Van Luijt, CEO, Weaviate as they discuss the world of vectors, AI models, and the role of vector databases in connecting these models.

Bob van Luijt has gone from building websites in middle school to raising tens of millions of dollars for his tech startup. The venture, Weaviate, has acquired funding from top-tier investors like Index Ventures, Cortical Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, and Battery Ventures.

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Weaviate helpt kunstmatige intelligentie sneller te zoeken en haalde recent 50 miljoen dollar op om te groeien. Hoe groot wordt de markt in kunstmatige intelligentie, en hoe verdien je er geld aan? Bob van Luijt, mede-oprichter en topman van Weaviate, is te gast in BNR Zakendoen.  Macro met Sweder van Wijnbergen   Elke dag een intrigerende gedachtewisseling over de stand van de macro-economie. Op maandag en vrijdag gaat presentator Thomas van Zijl in gesprek met econoom Arnoud Boot, de rest van de week praat Van Zijl met econoom Edin Mujagić.  Beleggerspanel  Philips zet miljoenen opzij voor mogelijke schadeclaims in de VS. En: De Nederlandse staat moet 800 miljoen euro uitkeren aan voormalige obligatiehouders van SNS bank. Dat en meer bespreken we in het beleggerspanel met:   - Marco Groot voormalig hoofd aandelen bij Rabobank en oprichter van 8 Days A Week.  - Reinder Wietsma, Head of Investments bij IBS Capital  Luister l Beleggerspanel: https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/zakendoen-beleggen  Inzichtgesprek  Het feedback management platform Insocial slaat de handen ineen met de chatdienst Message Bird. Met de samenwerking hopen de bedrijven het verzamelen van klantfeedback makkelijker te maken én Nederland af te helpen van zijn ‘survey-moeheid'. Te gast is Sjors Luiten, topman van Insocial .    Zakenpartner  Ze studeerde Cultuur & Organisatie Management en Bedrijfskunde aan de Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam. Na haar studie werkte ze bij verschillende bureaus in de marketingwereld, waaronder het door haarzelf opgerichte online marketingbureau An Other Agency, speciaal voor duurzame merken. En ze bleef in de duurzame hoek: want zo'n vier jaar geleden richtte zij Reliving op: een online marktplaats voor tweedehands designmeubels.    Contact & Abonneren  BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 12:00 tot 14:30 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail en Twitter.  Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nederlandse start-up Weaviate haalt in drie dagen ruim 50 miljoen dollar op. Weaviate is voor het durfkapitaal interessant, want het bedrijf werkt aan de infrastructuur achter programma's die werken met kunstmatige intelligentie, zoals ChatGPT. Hoe ziet de markt voor kunstmatige intelligentie eruit in de komende jaren?  In ‘De Top van Nederland' een uitgebreid gesprek met Bob van Luijt, mede-eigenaar van Weaviate.      Abonneer je op de podcast  Ga naar ‘De top van Nederland' en abonneer je op de podcast, ook te beluisteren via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bob van Luijt is the cofounder and CEO of Weaviate. They build, maintain, and commercialize the open-source vector database called Weaviate. They've raised funding from amazing investors such as Index and NEA. He is the Chairman of Creative Software Foundation, a nonprofit located in The Netherlands with a sole focus on open source and creative software. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including: - What are vector embeddings - What's a good vector representation - What is vector search and why do we need it - What is a vector database and why do we need it - How does a vector database work in practice - Applications that use vector databases Bob's favorite book: The Creative Act (Author: Rick Rubin)--------Where to find Prateek Joshi:  Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com Website: https://prateekj.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19 Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi 

This episode features a panel discussion with Charna Parkey, a Real-Time AI Product and Strategy leader at DataStax; and Sam Bean, Staff Engineer at You.com. Charna is a co-author and inventor on several patents, including patent-pending work on ML/coordinated feature engine at the edge. Sam helped create the Spark connector to Weaviate, and is passionate about Big Data, Spark, NLP, Hugging Face, and large language models.In this episode, Charna and Sam discuss adapting to user expectations, what's missing in the AI stack, and how to become an advanced citizen in open source.-------------------"We've seen these companies start to better understand that these streaming technologies have a place, whether it's Kafka or Flink or Pulsar, but it's still incredibly difficult to use and we need a different level of abstraction. [...] We're starting to see the stack change so that it becomes more interchangeable of the components and try to sort of raise that layer of abstraction so that we can get these types of models and these types of capabilities to more people." – Charna Parkey"I think that a lot of what you need to adjust to are these, what you were discussing as I call interaction data, you were calling it event data. But these interactions that people have with the internet and trying to find ways to model that in a way that even if your models aren't real-time, having ways to featurize real-time data in a way that's interpretable by a model. [...] I think Spark and Kafka and Delta and all of those things, give you a lot more flexibility now to move in different directions and readjust and I think, pivot what you want to do with the system." – Sam Bean-------------------Episode Timestamps:(01:29): Sam explains his background(03:36): Charna explains her background(18:13): Sam explains the problems You.com is solving for(28:21): Changes in user expectations in the AI-native stack(39:09): Advice for becoming an advanced citizen in open source(47:25): What's missing in the AI stack(54:51): What open source data means to the panelists(58:22): How technologists should prepare for the future(01:03:10): Executive producer, Audra Montenegro's backstage takeaways-------------------Links:LinkedIn - Connect with CharnaVisit DataStaxLinkedIn - Connect with SamVisit You.com

Topics:00:00 Intro01:54 Things Connor learnt in the past year that changed his perception of Vector Search02:42 Is search becoming conversational?05:46 Connor asks Dmitry: How Large Language Models will change Search?08:39 Vector Search Pyramid09:53 Large models, data, Form vs Meaning and octopus underneath the ocean13:25 Examples of getting help from ChatGPT and how it compares to web search today18:32 Classical search engines with URLs for verification vs ChatGPT-style answers20:15 Hybrid search: keywords + semantic retrieval23:12 Connor asks Dmitry about his experience with sparse retrieval28:08 SPLADE vectors34:10 OOD-DiskANN: handling the out-of-distribution queries, and nuances of sparse vs dense indexing and search39:54 Ways to debug a query case in dense retrieval (spoiler: it is a challenge!)44:47 Intricacies of teaching ML models to understand your data and re-vectorization49:23 Local IDF vs global IDF and how dense search can approach this issue54:00 Realtime index59:01 Natural language to SQL1:04:47 Turning text into a causal DAG1:10:41 Engineering and Research as two highly intelligent disciplines1:18:34 Podcast search1:25:24 Ref2Vec for recommender systems1:29:48 AnnouncementsFor Show Notes, please check out the YouTube episode below.This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q-7taLZ374Podcast design: Saurabh Rai: https://twitter.com/srvbhr

This episode features a panel discussion with Mikiko Bazeley, Head of MLOps at Featureform; Zain Hasan, Senior Developer Advocate at Weaviate; and Tuana Celik, Developer Advocate at deepset.In this episode, Mikiko, Zain, and Tuana discuss what open source data means to them, how their companies fit into the AI-first ecosystem, and how jobs will need to evolve with the AI-native stack.-------------------“We're almost part of a fancy new AI robot kitchen that you'd find in Tokyo, in some ways. I see a virtual feature store as, yes, you can have a bunch of your ingredients tossed into a closet. Or, what you can do is you can essentially have a nice way to organize them. You can have a way to label them, to capture information.” – Mikiko Bazeley“I really like that analogy as well. I like how Mikiko put it where a vector search engine is really extracting value from what you've already got. [...] So where I see vector search engines, really, is if we think of these embedding providers as the translators to take all of our unstructured data and bring it into vector space into a common machine language, vector search engines are essentially the workhorses that allow us to compute and search over these objects in vectorized format. They're essentially the calculators of the AI stack.” – Zain Hasan“Haystack, I would really position as the kitchen. I need Mikiko to bring the apples. I need Zain to bring the pears. I need Hugging Face or OpenAI to bring the oranges to make a good fruit salad. But, Haystack will provide the spoons and the pans and the knives to make that into something that works together.” – Tuana Celik-------------------Episode Timestamps:(02:08): What open source data means to the panelists(08:22): What interested the panelists about AI/ML(23:20): Mikiko explains Featureform(26:11): Zain explains Weaviate(29:34): Tuana explains deepset(35:11): The panelists discuss how their companies fit into the AI-first ecosystem(44:12): How jobs need to evolve with the AI-native stack(53:45): Executive producer, Audra Montenegro's backstage takeaways-------------------Links:LinkedIn - Connect with MikikoVisit FeatureformLinkedIn - Connect with ZainVisit WeaviateLinkedIn - Connect with TuanaVisit deepsetVisit Data-centric AI

We gaan het gesprek aan met Bob van Luijt van Weaviate. Natuurlijk praten we over de laatste ontwikkelingen binnen zijn bedrijf en de laatste innovaties in de vector-gebaseerde database Weaviate.In de basis is Weaviate gestoeld op het open-source bedrijfsmodel. Bob legt uit wat voor soorten open-source producten er zijn en welke soorten smaken er zijn voor licenties. Open-source kan een uitstekende manier om een organisatie op te bouwen waarin de snelheid van productontwikkeling een belangrijke rol speelt, net als samenwerken. Vanuit zijn ervaring geeft Bob een inkijkje in de mogelijkheden om een verdienmodel te ontwikkelen met een open-source product. Inmiddels heeft Weaviate een zeer actieve community en een kernteam van bijna 30 mensen. Bob legt uit op welke manier Weaviate het open-source model inzet om getalenteerde collega's te werven.Ben je benieuwd op welke manier open-source als organisatiemodel kan leiden tot succesvolle innovatie en een schaalbaar verdienmodel? Luister dan naar deze De Dataloog!In de aflevering deelt Bob verschillende bronnen. Hieronder een aantal links naar relevante achtergrondinformatie:Artikel: Why the business model of open-source worksBoek: Ask you developerBoek: Crossing the chasmDe Dataloog is de onafhankelijke Nederlandstalige podcast over data & kunstmatige intelligentie. Hier hoor je alles wat je moet weten over de zin en onzin van data, de nieuwste ontwikkelingen en echte verhalen uit de praktijk. Onze hosts houden het altijd begrijpelijk, maar schuwen de diepgang niet. Vind je De Dataloog leuk? Abonneer je op de podcast en laat een review achter.

Informationen sind vielfältig, sie existieren nicht nur in geschriebenen Text, sondern auch in Bilder, Töne, Videos und vielem mehr. Wähend klassischer a.k.a. lexikalischer Suche diese Informationen nur mit viel Aufwand über Umwege zugänglich gemacht werden können, so bietet semantische Suche den direkten Zugriff auf Informationen nicht nur jeder Sprache, sondern auch jeder Modalität wie etwa Bildern und Videos. In Folge 40 habe ich Joschka Braun von Jina.AI zu Gast. Jina ist ein Startup aus Berlin, welches Entwickler bei der Erstellung multi-modaler ML Anwendungen hilft. Gemeinsam erkären wir zunächst, wieso multi-modalität, also dem Zusammenwirken von unterschiedlichen Medientypen wie etwa Text, Bild, Ton etc. die Zukunft gehört. Wir gehen auf Clip- und Dall-E als erste populäre Vertreter multimodaler Machine Learning Modelle ein und erklären wie sie Dokumenten-Vektoren generieren. Anschließend sprechen wir über geeignete Verfahren zur performanten Durchsuchung der generierten Vektoren mittels Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) Search. Diese können entweder direkt mittels Bibliotheken wie etwa HNSWLib, Annoy oder Faiss genutzt werden, oder als Retrieval-Verfahren innerhalb einer Vektordatenbank. Diese verbinden die Transaktions- und Skalierungsqualtiäten von Datenbanken mit der effizienten Vektorabfrage. Hier reden wir insbesondere über die Vorzüge und Nachteile der dedizierten Vektordatenbanken wie Weaviate, Milvus und Qdrant sowie den klassischen Datenbanken mit Vektorsuche wie beispielsweise ElasticSearch. Zum Abschluss sprechen wir noch einmal über JinaAI, DocArray, ihren neuen Dienst JinaNow und NLP-Modell-Finetuning. Links: ANN BenchmarkBuch zu Neural SearchJinaAI Bootcamp

Bob van Luijt, is CEO of SeMI Technologies, the company behind the popular vector search engine Weaviate.   Bob describes their key features and core components, popular use cases, and he also provides an overview of Weaviate's near-term roadmap. We also discuss how vector search engines compare with existing data management systems.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

This episode features an interview with Bob van Luijt, CEO and Co-Founder of SeMI Technologies and co-creator of Weaviate, an open source vector search engine. At just 15 years of age, Bob started his own software company in the Netherlands. He went on to study music at ArtEZ University of the Arts and Berklee College of Music, and completed the Harvard Business School Program of Management Excellence. Bob is also a TedX speaker, discussing the relationship between software and language.In this episode, Sam sits down with Bob to break down vector search, the AI-first ecosystem, and how music and software relate to one another.-------------------“I dare to argue that from the two big waves in database technology that we've seen, so first, in the seventies and eighties with SQL. And then the whole NoSQL wave that we have seen and the big winners that are in there, I dare to argue that we see a third wave coming up. And the third wave, I simply call it AI-first. And what I mean with that is that these models play an important role. So we do it from the perspective of the models first. And in that new segment, you see four niches. So the first niche that we see are what I like to call the embedding providers. The Hugging Faces of this world, the OpenAIs of this world, etc. Those who bring us the embeddings that we need to do the vectorization. Then secondly, we have so-called neural search frameworks. So we see frameworks like Haystack and Jina. Then third, we have the feature stores. So the feature stores take care of storing large chunks of features that we later can use to do vectorization on those kinds of things.And then we have the search engines. And Weaviate is an example of such a search engine that takes care of searching through data on a large scale that is vectorized.It might be a bold statement, but I really believe that we see this third wave of database technology happening.” – Bob van Luijt-------------------Episode Timestamps:(01:45): How Bob defines open source data (04:09): What is a vector database and why do we need them? (07:55): How data is different before and after vectorization(13:58): Orders of magnitude faster or personal(16:09): How music and software relate to each other for Bob(19:33): Bob's inspiration behind Weaviate(25:02): The AI-first ecosystem(27:38): The distinction between vector search engines, feature stores, neural search frameworks, and embedding (32:28): Bob's advice for folks on the OSS startup journey-------------------Links:LinkedIn - Connect with BobTwitter - Follow BobTwitter - Follow WeaviateWeaviateSeMI TechnologiesBob's TedX TalkBob's Forbes Article on the AI-First Database Ecosystem

Bob van Luijt is the Co-Founder & CEO of SeMI Technologies, the company behind the open-source project Weaviate which is a vector search engine for ML models. Weaviate uses machine learning to vectorize (ie represent) and store data in order to more easily find answers to natural language queries. The project has 2.5K stars on GitHub and an almost 1K person Slack community of data scientists, data engineers, and software engineers. The company has raised over $17M from investors including NEA, Zetta, and Cortical Ventures.

1. Layering problem: www.edge.org/conversation/sean_…-layers-of-reality2. Podcast with Etienne Dilocker (SeMI Technologies Co-Founder & CTO): www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lkanzOqhDs3. SOC2: linfordco.com/blog/soc-1-vs-soc-2-audit-reports/4. Dmitry's post on 7 Vector Databases: towardsdatascience.com/milvus-pineco…-9c65a3bd06965. Billion-Scale ANN Challenge: big-ann-benchmarks.com/index.html6. Weaviate Introduction: www.semi.technology/developers/weaviate/current/ Newsletter: www.semi.technology/newsletter/7. Use case: Scalable Knowledge Graph Search for 60+ million academic papers with Weaviate: medium.com/keenious/knowledge-…aviate-7964657ec9118. Bob's Twitter: twitter.com/bobvanluijt9. Dmitry's Twitter: twitter.com/DmitryKan10. Dmitry's tech blog: dmitry-kan.medium.com/

Ict-vaktitel Computable, podcast De Dataloog en de Hogeschool van Amsterdam reiken dit jaar voor de tweede keer de Dutch Applied AI Award uit.Inzendingen voor de Dutch Applied AI Award 2021 moeten beschreven worden via drie criteria: de toepasbaarheid, de uniekheid en responsibility. Voor de toepasbaarheid (applied ai) geldt in hoeverre de oplossing al geïmplementeerd is, het gebruikt wordt door de beoogde doelgroep en hoe groot het aantal (potentiële) klanten of mensen is dat met deze innovatie direct of indirect wordt geholpen. De uniekheid gaat over in hoeverre de innovatie de enige in zijn soort is, het nooit eerder op de markt is gebracht en het doel van de innovatie kan niet op een andere manier worden behaald. Bij responsible ai draait alles om zaken als transparantie, privacy, fairness, et cetera.In deze uitzending krijgen we 5 pitches te horen van de 5 eerste kandidaten  BAM Infra, Jungle AI met Canopee als product, Councyl, Neurolytics en Semi Technologies met hun product Weaviate. De winnaar van de Dutch Applied AI Award 2021 wordt op 2 november 2021 tijdens de Computable Awards 2021 bekend gemaakt.

Google uses machine learning and graphs to deliver search results. Most search engines do not. Weaviate wants to change that. Bob van Luijt's career in technology started at age 15, building web sites to help people sell toothbrushes online. Not many 15 year-olds do that today, and fewer still did it then. Apparently that gave van Luijt enough of a head start to arrive at the confluence of technology trends today. Van Luijt went on to study arts, but ended up working full time in technology anyway. In 2015, when Google introduced its RankBrain Algorithm, the quality of search results jumped up. It was a watershed moment, as it introduced machine learning in search. A few people noticed, including van Luijt, who saw a business opportunity, and decided to bring this to the masses. Article published on ZDNet

Bob van Luijt (www.bob.wtf) is the founder at SeMI (www.semi.network/), and together with his team he is creating a decentralised knowledge graph called Weaviate. They are trying to be an open alternative to existing knowledge graphs made by Google and Amazon. Enjoyed this podcast? You will also like the one with VMC.ai.