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Weaviate Podcast
Join Connor Shorten as he interviews machine learning experts and explores Weaviate use cases from users and customers.
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Machine Studying with Jacob X. Li - Weaviate Podcast #148!
Jacob X. Li , a Ph.D. student at MIT joins the Weaviate Podcast to explain Machine Studying, a new framing for how AI agents can prepare themselves for a…
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SkyDiscover with Alexander Krentsel, Shu Liu, Shubham Agarwal, and Mert Cemri - Weaviate Podcast #147!
Shu Liu, Alexander Krentsel, Mert Cemri, and Shubham Agarwal, PhD students at U.C. Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab, join the Weaviate Podcast to discuss…
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In-Context Retrieval with Siddharth Gollapudi - Weaviate Podcast #146!
Siddharth Gollapudi, a researcher at UC Berkeley, joins the Weaviate Podcast to discuss in-context retrieval and his paper "Can Language Models Actually…
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humans& with Alexis Ross, Manya Bansal, and Niloofar Mireshghallah - Weaviate Podcast #145!
Alexis, Manya, and Niloofar from humans& join the Weaviate Podcast to introduce Persimmon, a user model built to simulate how humans actually behave in…
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Delegance Brokerage with Alex Ledbetter - Weaviate Podcast #144!
Alex Ledbetter is the founder of Delegance Brokerage, an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage he built entirely on his own. The conversation opens with his…
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AutoIndex with Sam O'Nuallain - Weaviate Podcast #143!
Sam O'Nuallain joins the Weaviate Podcast to discuss AutoIndex, research from UMass Amherst and Databricks on learning representation programs for retrieval…
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Recursive Language Models with Alex Zhang - Weaviate Podcast #142!
Alex Zhang, a PhD student at MIT, joins the Weaviate Podcast to discuss Recursive Language Models (RLMs), a new abstraction for designing agent harnesses…
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Drowning in Documents with Mathew Jacob - Weaviate Podcast #141!
Mathew Jacob, lead author of "Drowning in Documents: Consequences of Scaling Reranker Inference" and now a PhD student in ML systems at the University of…
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Founding Weaviate with Bob van Luijt and Etienne Dilocker - Weaviate Podcast #140!
Weaviate co-founders Bob van Luijt and Etienne Dilocker return to the Weaviate Podcast to celebrate seven years of building the company, answering questions…
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Knowledge Engineering with Bradley Allen - Weaviate Podcast #139!
Dr. Bradley Allen brings five decades of AI history into a deep conversation on knowledge engineering, neurosymbolic AI, and the future of enterprise…
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Booking.com and Weaviate with Başak Eskili - Weaviate Podcast #138!
Başak Eskili joins the Weaviate Podcast to explore how one of the world’s largest travel platforms adopted vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, and…
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Search Agents with Nandan Thakur - Weaviate Podcast #137!
Dr. Nandan Thakur returns to the Weaviate Podcast fresh off defending his dissertation to discuss the evolution from neural retrieval to agentic search and his…
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AgentIR with Zijian Chen and Xueguang Ma - Weaviate Podcast #136!
Zijian Chen and Xueguang Ma from the University of Waterloo join the Weaviate Podcast to discuss AgentIR and why retrieval systems need to be redesigned from…
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Data Agents with Shreya Shankar - Weaviate Podcast #135!
Shreya Shankar from UC Berkeley joins the Weaviate Podcast to discuss data agents, the Data Agent Benchmark, and DocETL. The conversation opens with defining…
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Multi-Vector Search with Amélie Chatelain and Antoine Chaffin - Weaviate Podcast #134!
Amélie Chatelain and Antoine Chaffin from LightOn are leading the way in the next generation of search powered by Multi-Vector representations and Late…
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AI-Powered Search with Doug Turnbull and Trey Grainger [#133]
Doug Turnbull and Trey Grainger join the Weaviate Podcast to discuss all things AI-Powered Search! The conversation kicks off with designing search…
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Pyversity with Thomas van Dongen - Weaviate Podcast #132!
Thomas van Dongen is the head of AI engineering at Springer Nature and the creator of Pyversity! Pyversity is a fast, lightweight open-source Python library…
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Semantic Query Engines with Matthew Russo - Weaviate Podcast #131!
Matthew Russo is a Ph.D. student at MIT where he is researching the intersection of AI and Database Systems. AI is transforming Database Systems. Perhaps the…
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REFRAG with Xiaoqiang Lin - Weaviate Podcast #130!
Xiaoqiang Lin is a Ph.D. student at the National University of Singapore. During his time at Meta, Xiaoqiang lead the research behind REFRAG: Rethinking…
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Weaviate and SAS with Saurabh Mishra and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #129!
This episode dives into Weaviate's partnership with SAS! We are super excited about our recent collaboration on the SAS Retrieval Agent Manager (RAM)…
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Weaviate's Query Agent with Charles Pierse - Weaviate Podcast #128!
Charles Pierse is the Director of the Weaviate Labs team, where he has recently lead the GA release of the Weaviate Query Agent. The podcast begins with the…
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GEPA with Lakshya A. Agrawal - Weaviate Podcast #127!
Lakshya A. Agrawal is a Ph.D. student at U.C. Berkeley! Lakshya has lead the research behind GEPA, one of the newest innovations in DSPy and the use of Large…
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Agentic Topic Modeling with Maarten Grootendorst - Weaviate Podcast #126!
Maarten Grootendorst is a psychologist turned AI engineer who has created BERTopic and authored "Hands-On Large Language Models" with Jay Alammar. The rise of…
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Sufficient Context with Hailey Joren - Weaviate Podcast #125!
Hailey Joren is a Ph.D. student at UCSD! Hailey and collaborators at Duke University and Google have recently published Sufficient Context: A New Lens on…
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RAG Benchmarks with Nandan Thakur - Weaviate Podcast #124!
Nandan Thakur is a Ph.D. student at the University of Waterloo! Nandan has worked on many of the most impactful works in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)…
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MUVERA with Rajesh Jayaram and Roberto Esposito - Weaviate Podcast #123!
Multi-vector retrieval offers richer, more nuanced search, but often comes with a significant cost in storage and computational overhead. How can we harness…
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Patronus AI with Anand Kannappan - Weaviate Podcast #122!
AI agents are getting more complex and harder to debug. How do you know what's happening when your agent makes 20+ function calls? What if you have a…
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Haize Labs with Leonard Tang - Weaviate Podcast #121!
How do you ensure your AI systems actually do what you expect them to do? Leonard Tang takes us deep into the revolutionary world of AI evaluation with…
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Box AI with Ben Kus and Bob van Luijt
Ben walks us through Box's three-layer infrastructure puzzle: First, the mind-boggling base infrastructure (think millions of interactions per second and…
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Structured Outputs with Will Kurt and Cameron Pfiffer - Weaviate Podcast #119!
Hey everyone! Thanks so much for watching another episode of the Weaviate Podcast! Dive into the fascinating world of structured outputs with Will Kurt and…
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Synthetic Data with David Berenstein and Ben Burtenshaw - Weaviate Podcast #118!
Synthetic Data: The Building Bocks of AI's Future! Hey everyone! I am SUPER EXCITED to publish the 118th episode of the Weaviate Podcast featuring David…
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Letta AI with Sarah Wooders - Weaviate Podcast #117!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 117th episode of the Weaviate podcast! In this episode, we dive deep into the cutting edge of AI agent…
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Agent Experience with Matt Biilmann, Sebastian Witalec, and Charles Pierse - Weaviate Podcast #116!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching another episode of the Weaviate Podcast! I am SUPER excited to welcome Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO of…
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Optimizing Retrieval Agents with Shirley Wu - Weaviate Podcast #115!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 115th episode of the Weaviate Podcast featuring Shirley Wu from Stanford University! We explore the innovative…
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Contextual AI with Amanpreet Singh - Weaviate Podcast #114!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 114th episode of the Weaviate Podcast featuring Amanpreet Singh, Co-Founder and CTO of Contextual AI!…
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Cartesia AI with Karan Goel - Weaviate Podcast #113!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 113th episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Karan Goel from Cartesia AI! Cartesia AI is leading the AI world in…
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Google Vertex AI RAG Engine with Lewis Liu and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #112!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 112th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! This is another super exciting one, diving into the release of the…
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Morningstar Intelligence Engine with Aravind Kesiraju - Weaviate Podcast #111!
Hey everyone! I am SUPER EXCITED to publish the 111th Weaviate Podcast with Aravind Kesiraju from Morningstar! Aravind is a Principal Software Engineer who has…
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Arctic Embed with Luke Merrick, Puxuan Yu, and Charles Pierse - Weaviate Podcast #110!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 110th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! Today we are diving into Snowflake’s Arctic Embedding model series and…
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Agentic RAG with Erika Cardenas - Weaviate Podcast #109!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 109th episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Erika Cardenas! Erika, in collaboration with Leonie Monigatti, have…
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Let Me Speak Freely? with Zhi Rui Tam - Weaviate Podcast #108!
JSON mode has been one of the biggest enablers for working with Large Language Models! JSON mode is even expanding into Multimodal Foundation models! But how…
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SWE-bench with John Yang and Carlos E. Jimenez - Weaviate Podcast #107!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 107th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! This one dives into SWE-bench, SWE-agent, and most recently SWE-bench…
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AI in Education with Rose E. Wang - Weaviate Podcast #106!
Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to publish the 106th episode of the Weaviate Podcast featuring Rose E. Wang!! Rose is a Ph.D. student at Stanford University…
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Compound AI Systems with Philip Kiely - Weaviate Podcast #105!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for tuning into the 105th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! This one features Philip Kiely diving into all sorts of apsects…
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AI Agents That Matter with Sayash Kapoor and Benedikt Stroebl - Weaviate Podcast #104!
AI Researchers have overfit to maximizing state-of-the-art accuracy at the expense of the cost to run these AI systems! We need to account for cost during…
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MIPRO and DSPy with Krista Opsahl-Ong! - Weaviate Podcast #103
I am beyond excited to publish our interview with Krista Opsahl-Ong from Stanford University! Krista is the lead author of MIPRO, short for Multi-prompt…
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AI-Native Development with Guy Podjarny and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #102!
AI is completely transforming how we build software! But how exactly? What does it mean for a software application to be AI-Native versus AI-Enabled? How many…
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Scaling Pandas with Devin Petersohn - Weaviate Podcast #101!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 101st episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Devin Petersohn! Devin is the creator of Modin, one of the world's…
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Generative UIs with Lucas Negritto and Bob van Luijt!
What is an AI-native application? This has been one of the questions we are most interested in answering at Weaviate! This podcast explores this question with…
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ACORN with Liana Patel and Abdel Rodriguez - Weaviate Podcast #99!
Liana Patel is a Ph.D. student at Stanford University who is the lead author of ACORN, a breakthrough in Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Filters! Also…
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Window Search Tree with Josh Engels - Weaviate Podcast #98!
Josh Engels is a Ph.D. student at MIT who has published several works advancing the state of the art in Vector Search. Josh has recently developed the Window…
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The Future of Search with Nils Reimers and Erika Cardenas - Weaviate Podcast #97!
Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to publish our 97th Weaviate Podcast on the state of AI-powered Search technology featuring Nils Reimers and Erika Cardenas!…
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Deep Learning with Letitia Parcalabescu - Weaviate Podcast #96!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 96th episode of the Weaviate podcast featuring Letitia Parcalabescu! While completing her Ph.D. studies at the…
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Google Cloud Marketplace with Dai Vu and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #95!
Hey everyone, thank you so much for watching the 95th Weaviate Podcast! We are beyond honored to feature Dai Vu from Google on this one, alongside Weaviate…
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ParlayANN with Magdalen Dobson Manohar
As you are graduating from ideas to engineering, one of the key concepts to be aware of is Parallel Computing and Concurrency. I am SUPER excited to share our…
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RAGKit with Kyle Davis - Weaviate Podcast #93!
Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to publish our newest Weaviate podcast with Kyle Davis, the creator of RAGKit! At a high-level, the podcast covers our…
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VetRec with David de Matheu - Weaviate Podcast #92!
I've seen a lot of interest around RAG for X application domain, Legal, Accounting, Healthcare, .... David and Kevin are maybe the best example of this I have…
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Tengyu Ma on Voyage AI - Weaviate Podcast #91!
Voyage AI is the newest giant in the embedding, reranking, and search model game! I am SUPER excited to publish our latest Weaviate podcast with Tengyu Ma…
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Self-Discover DSPy with Chris Dossman - Weaviate Podcast #90!
One of the core values of DSPy is the ability to add “reasoning modules” such as Chain-of-Thought to your LLM programs! For example, Chain-of-Thought describes…
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Matryoshka Embeddings with Aditya Kusupati, Zach Nussbaum, and Zain Hasan - Weaviate Podcast #89!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 89th Weaviate Podcast on Matryoshka Representation Learning! I am beyond grateful to be joined by the lead…