Best Weaviate Podcasts (2025)

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MUVERA with Rajesh Jayaram and Roberto Esposito - Weaviate Podcast #123! 1:13:06

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Multi-vector retrieval offers richer, more nuanced search, but often comes with a significant cost in storage and computational overhead. How can we harness the power of multi-vector representations without breaking the bank? Rajesh Jayaram, the first author of the groundbreaking MUVERA algorithm from Google, and Roberto Esposito from Weaviate, who…

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Episode 39 | Alex Jukes | Fractional CTO | Former CTO @ Intropic 1:15:27

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Episode #39 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 Alex Jukes, formerly the CTO of Intropic and now a Fractional …

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Patronus AI with Anand Kannappan - Weaviate Podcast #122! 1:01:06

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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 Multi-Agent System orchestrating several Agents? Anand Kannappan, co-founder of Patronus AI, reveals how their groundbreaking tool Percival transforms agent debugging and evaluation. Percival can inst…

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Haize Labs with Leonard Tang - Weaviate Podcast #121! 54:15

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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 concrete techniques you can apply today. Learn how Haize Labs is transforming AI testing through "scaling judge-time compute" - stacking weaker models to effectively evaluate stronger ones. Leonard …

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Box AI with Ben Kus and Bob van Luijt 55:32

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Ben walks us through Box's three-layer infrastructure puzzle: First, the mind-boggling base infrastructure (think millions of interactions per second and trillions of files). Second, their unique multi-tenant security challenge - unlike most SaaS platforms, Box users share content across company boundaries, making traditional tenant isolation impos…

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Structured Outputs with Will Kurt and Cameron Pfiffer - Weaviate Podcast #119! 1:10:17

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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 Cameron Pfeiffer, the brilliant minds behind Outlines, the revolutionary open-source library from .txt.ai that's changing how we interact with LLMs. In this episode, we explore how constrained d…

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Synthetic Data with David Berenstein and Ben Burtenshaw - Weaviate Podcast #118! 1:02:01

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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 Berenstein and Ben Burtenshaw from HuggingFace! This podcast explores the intricacies of synthetic data generation, detailing methodologies such as data augmentation, distillation, and instruction …

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Letta AI with Sarah Wooders - Weaviate Podcast #117! 57:34

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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 development with Sarah Wooders, co-founder and CTO of Letta AI. Emerging from Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab, Sarah and her team have pioneered a revolutionary approach to stateful agents - AI systems…

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Agent Experience with Matt Biilmann, Sebastian Witalec, and Charles Pierse - Weaviate Podcast #116! 52:09

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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 Netlify, as well as Sebastian Witalec and Charles Pierse from Weaviate to discuss Agent Experience! You have probably heard about how you can connect LLMs to external software tools. This superchar…

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Optimizing Retrieval Agents with Shirley Wu - Weaviate Podcast #115! 1:00:20

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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 Avatar Optimizer—a novel framework that leverages contrastive reasoning to refine LLM agent prompts for optimal tool usage. Shirley explains how this self-improving system evolves through it…

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Contextual AI with Amanpreet Singh - Weaviate Podcast #114! 57:56

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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! Contextual AI is at the forefront of production-grade RAG agents! I learned so much from this conversation! We began by discussing the vision of RAG 2.0, jointly optimizing generative and retrieval m…

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Episode 38 | John Engates | Field CTO @ Weaviate | Former CTO @ Rackspace 1:18:32

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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…

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Episode 37 | Bob van Luijt | CEO @ Weaviate 1:34:59

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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 Vect…

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Cartesia AI with Karan Goel - Weaviate Podcast #113! 53:45

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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 text-to-speech models! As exciting as these new applications in speech generation are, Cartesia is also building around an incredibly exciting new neural network architecture that cuts acros…

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Google Vertex AI RAG Engine with Lewis Liu and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #112! 58:16

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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 Vertex AI RAG Engine, its integration with Weaviate and thoughts on the future of connecting AI systems with knowledge sources! The podcast begins by reflecting on Bob's experience speaking at Go…

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Morningstar Intelligence Engine with Aravind Kesiraju - Weaviate Podcast #111! 53:25

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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 lead the development behind the Morningstar Intelligence Engine! There are so many interesting aspects to this, and if you are building Agentic systems that would benefit from a high-quality…

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Arctic Embed with Luke Merrick, Puxuan Yu, and Charles Pierse - Weaviate Podcast #110! 1:33:39

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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 their newly released Arctic Embed 2.0 open-source model, additionally supporting multilingual text embeddings. The podcast covers the origin of Arctic Embed, Pre-training embedding models, Ma…

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Agentic RAG with Erika Cardenas - Weaviate Podcast #109! 34:08

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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 recently published "What is Agentic RAG". This blog post that was even covered in VentureBeat with additional quotes from Weaviate Co-Founder and CEO Bob van Luijt! This podcast continues th…

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Let Me Speak Freely? with Zhi Rui Tam - Weaviate Podcast #108! 40:04

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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 exactly is JSON mode achieved? There are generally 3 paths to JSON mode: (1) constrained generation (such as Outlines), (2) begging the model for a JSON response in the prompt, and (3) A two s…

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SWE-bench with John Yang and Carlos E. Jimenez - Weaviate Podcast #107! 58:23

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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 Multimodal with John Yang from Stanford University and Carlos E. Jimenez from Princeton University! One of the most impactful applications of AI we have seen so far is in programming and softw…

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AI in Education with Rose E. Wang - Weaviate Podcast #106! 51:15

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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 where she has lead incredible research at the cutting-edge of AI applications in Education. The podcast heavily discusses her recent work on Tutor CoPilot! Tutor CoPilot is one of the world's …

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Compound AI Systems with Philip Kiely - Weaviate Podcast #105! 56:50

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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 related to Compound AI Systems! We are now seeing far better results with AI models by breaking up tasks into multiple stages and inferences. Philip explains the work they are doing at Baseten to…

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AI Agents That Matter with Sayash Kapoor and Benedikt Stroebl - Weaviate Podcast #104! 1:00:43

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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 optimization. Even if a chatbot can produce an amazing answer, it isn't that valuable if it costs, say $5 per response!I am beyond excited to present the 104th Weaviate Podcast with Sayash Kapoor…

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Episode 36 | Jeff "Yosh" Yoshimura | CMO @ Snyk / Elastic 1:36:47

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Episode #36 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 we're talking with Jeff Yoshimura, or "Yosh" as his friends and colleagues know him. When it co…

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MIPRO and DSPy with Krista Opsahl-Ong! - Weaviate Podcast #103 1:00:36

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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 Instruction Proposal Optimizer, and one of the leading developers and scientists behind DSPy! This was such a fun discussion beginning with the motivation of Automated Prompt Engineering, Multi-Lay…

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AI-Native Development with Guy Podjarny and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #102! 52:36

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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 other aspects of software development and creativity are impacted by AI? I am super excited to publish our 102nd Weaviate Podcast with Guy Podjarny and Bob van Luijt on AI-Native Development!…

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Scaling Pandas with Devin Petersohn - Weaviate Podcast #101! 47:49

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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 most advanced systems for scaling Pandas! Devin then went onto co-found Ponder, which was acquired by Snowflake in early 2023. This was one of my favorite podcasts of all time, I learned so m…

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Generative UIs with Lucas Negritto and Bob van Luijt! 43:40

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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 Weaviate Co-founder Bob van Luijt and Lucas Negritto. Formerly at OpenAI, Lucas is now building Odapt, a remarkable example of such an application where we no longer use front-end code, rathe…

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ACORN with Liana Patel and Abdel Rodriguez - Weaviate Podcast #99! 53:55

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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 joining the podcast is Abdel Rodriguez, a Vector Index Researcher and Engineer at Weaviate. This podcast dives into all sorts of details behind ACORN. Starting with how Liana developed her i…

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Window Search Tree with Josh Engels - Weaviate Podcast #98! 58:56

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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 Search Tree, a new algorithm particularly targeted for improving Filtered Vector Search. Even more particularly than that, the WST algorithm targets Filtered Search with continuous-valued filt…

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The Future of Search with Nils Reimers and Erika Cardenas - Weaviate Podcast #97! 59:41

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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! Erika and I have been super excited about Cohere's latest works to advance RAG and Search and it was amazing getting to pick Nils' brain about all these topics! We began with the development o…

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Episode 35 | Dr. Santona Tuli, Head of Data @ Upsolver | Unified Theory of Batch and Streaming Data 58:24

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Episode #35 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!Dr. Santona Tuli started her career as a physics researcher at CERN where she analyzed what happens w…

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Deep Learning with Letitia Parcalabescu - Weaviate Podcast #96! 1:35:18

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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 University of Heidelberg, Letitia started her YouTube channel: AI Coffee Break with Letitia! Her videos break down complex concepts in AI with a creative mix of technical expertise and visua…

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Google Cloud Marketplace with Dai Vu and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #95! 41:28

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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 Co-Founder Bob van Luijt! This podcast dives into all things Google Cloud Marketplace and the state of AI. Beginning with the proliferation of Open-Source models and how Dai sees the evolving la…

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ParlayANN with Magdalen Dobson Manohar 1:03:57

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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 94th Weaviate podcast with Magdalen Dobson Manohar! Magdalen is one of the most impressive scientists I have ever met, having completed her undergraduate studies at MIT before joining Carnegi…

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RAGKit with Kyle Davis - Weaviate Podcast #93! 1:27:03

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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 understanding of RAG systems through 4 key areas: (1) Ingest / ETL, (2) Search, (3) Generate / Agents, and (4) Evaluation. Discussing these lead to all sorts of topics from Knowledge Graph RAG, to F…

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VetRec with David de Matheu - Weaviate Podcast #92! 59:47

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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 seen so far, pivoting from Neum AI to VetRec! We begin the podcast by discussing the decision to switch gears, the advice given by Y Combinator, and David's experience in learning a new appli…

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Tengyu Ma on Voyage AI - Weaviate Podcast #91! 1:02:59

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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, Co-Founder of Voyage AI and Assistant Professor at Stanford University! We began the podcast with a deep dive into everything embedding model training and contrastive learning theory. Tengyu del…

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Self-Discover DSPy with Chris Dossman - Weaviate Podcast #90! 1:02:57

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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 prompting the LLM with “Let’s think step by step …”. Interestingly, this meta-prompt around asking the LLM to think this way dramatically improves performance in tasks like question answerin…

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Episode 34 | Shane Connelly | Vectara Head of Product | Semantic Search and RAG with LLMs 1:09:55

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Episode #34 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!If you want to get into building AI products, first go to school and learn about antenna design! At l…

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Matryoshka Embeddings with Aditya Kusupati, Zach Nussbaum, and Zain Hasan - Weaviate Podcast #89! 1:12:14

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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 author of Matryoshka Representation Learning, Aditya Kusupati, Zach Nussbaum, a Machine Learning Engineer at Nomic AI bringing these embeddings to production, and my Weaviate colleague, Zain Has…

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Instructor with Jason Liu - Weaviate Podcast #88! 55:30

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Jason Liu is the creator of Instructor, one of the world's leading LLM frameworks, particularly focused on structured output parsing with LLMs, or as Jason puts it "making LLMs more backwards compatible". It is hard to understand the impact of Instructor, this is truly leading us to the next era of LLM programming. It was such an honor chatting wit…

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XMC.dspy with Karel D'Oosterlinck - Weaviate Podcast #87! 1:08:53

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 87th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! I am SUPER excited to welcome Karel D'Oosterlinck! Karel is the creator of IReRa (Infer-Retrieve-Rank)! IReRa is one of the most impressive systems that have been built for Extreme Multi-Label Classification, leveraging the emerging paradigm of DSPy compilation! …

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Episode 33 | Francesca Krihely-Price | Marketing & Growth @ Oso, Snyk, MongoDB | Angel and Advisor 1:20:28

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Episode #33 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!Francesca Krihely-Price is an expert in the space of SaaS Marketing and Growth, having built several …

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Open-Source AI with Vinod Valloppillil and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #86! 55:04

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Hey everyone! We are super excited to publish this podcast with Vinod Valloppillil and Bob van Luijt on Open-Source AI and future directions for RAG! The podcast begins by discussing Vinod's "Halloween Documents", a series of internal strategy writings at Microsoft related to the open-source software movement! The conversation continues to discuss …

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DSPy and ColBERT with Omar Khattab! - Weaviate Podcast #85 31:25

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Hey everyone! I am beyond excited to present our interview with Omar Khattab from Stanford University! Omar is one of the world's leading scientists on AI and NLP. I highly recommend you check out Omar's remarkable list of publications linked below! This interview completely transformed my understanding of building RAG and LLM applications! I belie…

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Subjectivity in AI with Dan Shipper: AI-Native Databases #4 42:26

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the fourth and final episode of the AI-Native Database series with Dan Shipper! This was another epic one! Dan has had an absolutely remarkable career creating and selling a company and now co-founding and working as the CEO of Every! Every is an incredibly future-looking business focused on content onli…

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Humans and AI with John Maeda: AI-Native Databases #3 40:06

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 3rd episode of the AI-Native Database series featuring John Maeda and Bob van Luijt! This one dives into how humans perceive AI, from Anthroaormorphization to Doomsday scenario thinking and how important understanding how AI actually work is to the engineering of these systems. Bob and John discuss t…

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Structure in Data with Paul Groth: AI-Native Databases #2 45:15

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the second episode of AI-Native Databases with Paul Groth! This was another epic one, diving deep into the role of structure in our data! Beginning with Knowledge Graphs and LLMs, there are two perspectives: LLMs for Knowledge Graphs (using LLMs to extract relationships or predict missing links) and then…

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Self-Driving Databases with Andy Pavlo: AI-Native Databases #1 1:14:32

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Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the first episode of AI-Native Databases with Andy Pavlo! This was an epic one! We began by explaining the "Self-Driving Database" and all the opportunities to optimize DBs with AI and ML at both the low-level, as well as how we query and interact with them. We also discussed new opportunities with DBs +…