Join Nils Reimers, a prominent researcher in dense embeddings and the driving force behind foundational search models at Cohere. He dives into the intriguing limitations of text embeddings, such as their struggles with long documents and out-of-domain data. Reimers shares insights on the necessity of fine-tuning to adapt models effectively. He also discusses innovative approaches like re-ranking to enhance search relevance, and the bright future of embeddings as new research avenues are explored. Don't miss this deep dive into the cutting-edge of AI!

Join the 97th Weaviate Podcast with Nils Reimers and Erika Cardenas as they delve into AI-powered search technology. Topics include Compass embeddings, multi-aspect chunking, ColBERT, RAG Evaluation, and more. Discover the challenges and solutions in embeddings, LLMs, smart chunking strategies, evaluating chatbots, and optimizing vector databases with quantization methods.

Nils Reimers, AI researcher, discusses the collaboration between Weaviate and Cohere, temporal queries, metadata extraction, long document representation, and future directions for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the Weaviate Podcast. They also explore the challenges of search analysis, fine-tuning language models, and user preferences in search.