Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the Weaviate Podcast! This is pretty novel episode featuring both Weaviate Co-Founders Bob van Luijt and Etienne Dilocker! This is also extremely novel because we are featuring a competitor vector database, HyperDB! John Dagdelen is the founder of HyperDB which is a hyper-fast local vector database for use with LLM Agents. Now accepting SAFEs at $135M cap. HyperDB: https://github.com/jdagdelen/hyperDB More seriously, John has produced an incredible body of research - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TiCS5FEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao. John's work on Scientific Literature Mining for Materials Science literature has played an enormous role in my personal education of this technology and what it is capable. Please also follow John on twitter @jmdagdelen. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:26 HyperDB! 3:58 Initial Discovery of Vector Dos 15:00 Search Engine versus Databases 18:40 Scientific Literature Mining 21:42 Structured Information Extraction 27:47 Generative Feedback Loops