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We’re growing our team at Weaviate! 🚀 Join us in shaping the future of AI. Open roles include: • Technical Trainer: https://lnkd.in/g93Tnkim • Social Media & Content Intern: https://lnkd.in/eGFfwDjc • Site Reliability Engineer: https://lnkd.in/gCRM9drN • Research Engineer: https://lnkd.in/gvJ3YcX7 • Software Engineer, Database: https://lnkd.in/gs-ATX_6 • Senior Full Stack Engineer: https://lnkd.in/g93Tnkim • QA Engineer: https://lnkd.in/gzcK8JPG • Technical Writer: https://lnkd.in/gd7ym8Qd Explore all positions and apply here: https://lnkd.in/dzibHnwZ

We’ve seen and implemented great research developments in machine learning applications this year at Weaviate 👀 Here are some of our favorites 🔽 🌰 ACORN - We made filtered vector search queries up to 10x faster by implementing methods described in the ACORN paper Paper: https://lnkd.in/ga-vNpJT Blog: https://lnkd.in/gi4Y3X-c 📎 Late Chunking - We explored how this technique from Jina AI could balance precision and cost in long context retrieval Paper: https://lnkd.in/gmgXkmxW Blog: https://lnkd.in/eXcgBzuj 🪆 Matryoshka Embeddings - We talked about how this new technique for training embedding models can help you store more information at a lower cost and search for it faster Paper: https://lnkd.in/gUPJwavh Blog: https://lnkd.in/dtWpBqKc 🦾 DSPy - We learned how to better prompt our language models with DSPy, even implementing it in a few internal tools Paper: https://lnkd.in/dQRESmsN Blog: https://lnkd.in/equBWSCp 🃏 Binary Quantization - We continued to explore quantization techniques, including implementing a 32x Reduced Memory Usage With Binary Quantization Blog: https://lnkd.in/djVTZmT4

Looking to sharpen your AI tech stack in 2025? Just in time, GigaOm's Sonar Report for Vector Databases is here! We’re proud to be named a Leader and Fast Mover, highlighted for: 💰Cost-savings constructs ⚙️ Model flexibility 🔎 Dynamic indexing techniques & more! Get the report to learn about the state of vector databases and how to evaluate solutions: https://lnkd.in/gf7AHniM

What a way to end the year of hack nights at Weaviate. Hack Nights were never a part of my job description, but growth is. And defining a community event format that helps grow Weaviate and create organic interest in the vector database very much fits into my definition of Growth. Through Hack Night alone, we grew so many net new developer partnerships, connecting Weaviate to tons of hyper growth companies. We also grew a developer community of almost 5000 members, many of whom came out to hack night building incredible projects with weaviate and our amazing partners. We also collected over 1000+ units of developer feedback for all companies who join at Hack Night through a platform I've been hacking on in my spare time called HackrSquad. Hack night in Berlin was incredibly special for me. I saw familiar faces from my developer activation events in San Francisco, to meeting hundreds of new faces building on our technologies in Berlin. Special thanks to the companies (Jina AI, Fiberplane, Arize AI, AssemblyAI, deepset, Langfuse (YC W23), Unbody, Restack, Neon) who partnered with us at Weaviate in Berlin and to the community who made the night extra special. 2024 was a banger, I'm stoked for 2025. Let's Go!

Wondering what AI [in Prod] has been up to? We spent the year bringing insightful and actionable stories about AI, vector search, RAG, and more to a city near you. We ended 2024 in London with some of our most engaging sessions yet. Catch us in 2025! Check the blog for more: https://lnkd.in/e3BMMCME

Do you want to know what it takes to build innovative AI projects in just one night? We're thrilled to share the highlights from the recent AI Hacknight hosted by Weaviate and Adam Chan at the Merantix AI Campus! This event brought together 200+ hackers and some of the most innovative companies in AI to create groundbreaking solutions using cutting-edge tools. 🎥 Watch the full video to discover: https://lnkd.in/dTYWekR3 - Top tools and technologies that powered the hackathon. - Insightful demos from leading AI companies like AssemblyAI, Neon, deepset, and Jina AI

Amazing Hackathon on the Merantix AI Campus last week with 10 amazing AI Companies🚀 💫 Fantastic presentations, Demos, Products and Swag from 💫 1) 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: Interactive dev environment for LLM-based application by Andrés Tapia from Restack 2) 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲: Tools for LLM evaluation, debugging, and prompt tweaking by Marc Klingen from Langfuse (YC W23) 3) 𝗝𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗔𝗜: Advanced embeddings and search models for text and images by Wang Bo from Jina AI 4) 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗸: Auto-generated full-stack LLM app builder by Nele Uhlemann from Fiberplane 5) 𝗔𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲: AI observability and evaluation platform for LLMs by Dat Daryl Ngo from Arize AI 6) 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆𝗔𝗜: Speech-to-text with sentiment, topic, and audio analysis tools by Patrick Löber from AssemblyAI 7) 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲: AI-native vector database for RAG applications by Tuana Çelik, Edward Schmuhl, Danny Williams and Adam Chan from Weaviate 8) 𝗛𝗮𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 : Framework for RAG pipelines and AI app components by Julian Risch from deepset 9) 𝗡𝗲𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲: Serverless PostgreSQL with versioning and branching by Raouf Chebri from Neon 10) 𝗨𝗻𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆: Image dataset search and LLM-powered QA apps by Amir Houieh from Unbody Looking forward to the next one thanks Philip Vollet for the invite and making it funny as hell! Sheesh I thought Germans could not be that funny 🤣🤣 Thanks for the prize from Fiberplane for my voice app hacked up in 2 hours! 🏆 Shoutout to their awesome code generation. Check it out https://lnkd.in/ej5cYJZe

Builders want to build, and people want to connect, so we introduced Hack Nights. Starting in San Francisco, Hack Nights have now expanded to Paris and Berlin. Get a glimpse of what our Berlin community thinks and experience the atmosphere firsthand. 💚 Join our upcoming events: https://lnkd.in/gtCeMAvu

Last week, I had the honor of joining the AI Hack Night in Berlin🤗 💻 Thanks again to everyone who built with AssemblyAI and for the great conversations! I loved seeing all the cool projects and the energy!🎉 Big thanks to Adam Chan, Philip Vollet, and the team at Weaviate for hosting this unforgettable event and bringing some SF vibes to the Berlin tech community! And congrats to David Pomerenke for winning the AssemblyAI challenge with his Podcast analyzer app!🏆 It was also great meeting friends from Jina AI, Langfuse (YC W23), Arize AI, Fiberplane, deepset, Unbody, and others!

Moving your Weaviate OSS instance into production? Check out our handy guide to securing your Weaviate database in the cloud, including all the helpful modules we’ve added to make it as easy as possible to keep your vectors safe. The guide includes: • Risk-based assessment strategies • Built-in security tools • Best practices for production deployment Read the blog post: https://lnkd.in/ekJPJYpE