Weaviate Podcast

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 69th episode of the Weaviate Podcast featuring Charles Pierse from Tactic! Tactic has recently launched their new Tactic Generate project, an incredible UI for conducting research across multiple documents. I think there is a massive opportunity to pair these prompts and LLM workflows with User Interfaces and take more of a holistic User Experience perspective. Tactic Generate has done an incredible job of that, please take a look from the link below! I had such a fun conversation catching up with Charles (Charles was our 2nd Weaviate Podcast guest!), I hope you enjoy the podcast! Tactic Generate: https://tactic.fyi/generative-insights/ Chapters 0:00 Tactic Generate 1:40 Welcome Charles! 2:38 Charles’ work at Tactic 4:40 LLMs comparing documents 9:10 LLM Chaining 17:30 Discovering LLM Chains 20:28 Moats in ML Products 28:48 Fine-Tuning vs. RAG 34:30 Fine-Tuning Search Models 39:45 Skepticism on RLHF 41:52 Gorilla, Integrations, and CRM 45:40 Query Routers 47:55 CRM and Tree-of-Thoughts 55:54 Graph Embeddings 1:02:20 Llama CPP / GGML 1:04:28 What are you looking forward to most in AI?

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 68th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! We are super excited to welcome Morgan McGuire, Darek Kleczek, and Thomas Capelle! This was such a fun discussion beginning with generally how see the space of fine-tuning from why you would want to do it, to the available tooling, intersection with RAG and more! Check out W&B Prompts! https://wandb.ai/site/prompts Check out the W&B Tiny Llama Report! https://wandb.ai/capecape/llamac/reports/Training-Tiny-Llamas-for-Fun-and-Science--Vmlldzo1MDM2MDg0 Chapters 0:00 Tiny Llamas! 1:53 Welcome! 2:22 LLM Fine-Tuning 5:25 Tooling for Fine-Tuning 7:55 Why Fine-Tune? 9:55 RAG vs. Fine-Tuning 12:25 Knowledge Distillation 14:40 Gorilla LLMs 18:25 Open-Source LLMs 22:48 Jonathan Frankle on W&B 23:45 Data Quality for LLM Training 25:55 W&B for Data Versioning 27:25 Curriculum Learning 29:28 GPU Rich and Data Quality 30:30 Vector DBs and Data Quality 32:50 Tuning Training with Weights & Biases 35:47 Training Reports 42:28 HF Collections and W&B Sweeps 44:50 Exciting Directions for AI

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 67th Weaviate Podcast, announcing Weaviate on the AWS Marketplace! This was one of my favorite podcasts to date with a deep dive on the details of running RAG applications in the cloud, our general understanding of LLM Fine-Tuning and RAG, as well as a really interesting discussion on VPCs and Hybrid SaaS! I hope you find the podcast useful, as always we are more than happy to answer any questions or discuss any ideas you have about the content presented in the podcast! Learn more here: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=seller-jxgfug62rvpxs As well as here: https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/installation/aws-marketplace Chapters 0:00 Welcome Farshad 0:38 Weaviate’s Journey to AWS 2:05 Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Vector DBs 3:44 Running AI in the Cloud 9:40 Fine-Tuning LLMs vs. RAG 10:30 Skill vs. Knowledge (Lawyer Example) 14:28 Continual Learning of LLMs 16:50 Searching through multiple sources 19:58 Hybrid Search controlled by LLMs 22:10 Classes versus Filters 25:00 SQL and Vector Search 25:55 Favorite RAG Use Cases 31:55 Cloud Benchmarking 37:00 Price Performance 38:20 Tuning HNSW 42:15 Horizontal Scalability on AWS Marketplace 47:00 Privacy Requirements 54:45 Weaviate Hybrid SaaS 59:00 AWS Marketplace

Hey everyone! Here is a clip from our newest Weaviate podcast with Farshad Farahbakhshian, Gen AI specialist at AWS and Etienne Dilocker, CTO and Co-Founder of Weaviate! This podcast announces Weaviate on the AWS marketplace and is packed with info on running Weaviate in the cloud such as this clip explaining how Hybrid SaaS works! I hope you find the clip useful, we are more than happy to answer any questions you have about the content in this clip! Chapters 0:00 Quick Intro for Context 0:29 Etienne Dilocker on Hybrid SaaS

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 66th Weaviate Podcast with David Garnitz, the creator of VectorFlow! VectorFlow (open-sourced on GH and linked below) is a new tool for ingesting data into Vector Databases such as Weaviate! There is quite an interesting End-to-End stack emerging at the ingestion layer, from retrieving data from misc. sources such as Slack, Salesforce, GitHub, Google Drive, Notion, ... to then Chunking the Text (maybe with the use of Visual Document Layout parsers like what Unstructured is imagining), extracting Metadata potentially (say the "age" of an NBA player as in the Evaporate-Code+ research) -- then sending this data off to embedding model inference and unpacking that can of worms from inference acceleration to load balancing, and finally -- importing the vectors themselves to Weaviate! I learned so much from this conversation, I really hope you enjoy listening and please check out VectorFlow below! VectorFlow: https://github.com/dgarnitz/vectorflow Chapters 0:00 VectorFlow on GitHub! 0:52 Welcome David Garnitz! 1:17 Vector Flow, Founding Vision 2:00 Billions of Vectors in Weaviate! 4:20 End-to-end data importing 6:30 Metadata Extraction in Vector Database Flows 10:15 Vectorizing 100s of millions of billions of chunks 15:58 Fine-Tuning Embedding Models 23:50 Zero-Shot Models in Metadata and Chunking 36:36 Vector + SQL 42:45 Self-Driving Databases 49:23 Generative Feedback Loop REST API 51:38 GPT Cache 55:55 Building VectorFlow

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the Weaviate Podcast! I am SUPER excited to publish my conversation with Ofir Press! Ofir has done incredible work pioneering AliBi attention and Self-Ask prompting and I learned so much from speaking with him! As always we are more than happy to answer any questions or discuss any ideas you have about the content in the podcast! +Huge Congratulations on your Ph.D. Ofir! AliBi Attention: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12409 Self-Ask Prompting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03350 Ofir Pres on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ofirpress Chapters 0:00 Welcome Ofir Press 0:41 Large Context LLMs 12:38 Quadratic Complexity of Attention 19:12 AliBi Attention, Visual Demo! 24:53 Recency Bias in LLMs 28:57 RAG in Long Context LLM Training 36:27 Self-Ask Prompting 46:07 Chain-of-Thought and Self-Ask 50:47 Gorilla LLMs 58:42 New Directions for New Training Data

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 64th Weaviate Podcast with Shishir Patil and Tianjun Zhang, co-authors of Gorilla: Large Language Models Connected with Massive APIs! I learned so much about Gorilla from Shishir and Tianjun, from the APIBench dataset to the continually evolving APIZoo, how the models are trained with Retrieval-Aware Training, Self-Instruct Training data and how the authors think of fine-tuning LLaMA-7B models for tasks such as this, and many more! I hope you enjoy the podcast! As always I am more than happy to answer any questions or discuss any ideas you have about the content in the podcast! Please check out the paper here! https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15334 Chapters 0:00 Welcome Shishir and Tianjun 0:25 Gorilla LLM Story 1:50 API Examples 7:40 The APIZoo 10:55 Gorilla vs. OpenAI Funcs 12:50 Retrieval-Aware Training 19:55 Mixing APIs, Gorilla for Integration 25:12 LlaMA-7B Fine-Tuning vs. GPT-4 29:08 Weaviate Gorilla 33:52 Gorilla and Baby Gorillas 35:40 Gorilla vs. HuggingFace 38:32 Structured Output Parsing 41:14 Reflexion Prompting for Debugging 44:00 Directions for the Future

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.

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 62nd Weaviate Podcast with Atai Barkai! We are stepping into the meta with this one for a podcast about podcasts! Podcasts are one of the biggest opportunities of new technologies, starting with Whisper's ability to transcribe audio to text and advances with speaker diarization, .. the question to be explored is, What Vector Database and LLM applications can we build with this data?! What is the future of podcasting with these new technologies?! I had so much fun discussing all these ideas with Atai! As always we are more than happy to answer any questions or discuss any ideas you have about content discussed in the podcast! Thank you so much for watching! Chapters 0:00 Welcome Atai! 1:04 TawkitAI and PodcastGPT! 2:20 Chat with Podcast PodcastGPT - https://www.podcastgpt.ai/ Tawkit AI - https://twitter.com/tawkitapp Weaviate Podcast Search Demo! https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate-podcast-search

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 61st episode of the Weaviate Podcast! I am beyond excited to publish this one! I first met Rohit at the Cal Hacks event hosted by UC Berkeley where we had a debate about the impact of Semantic Caching! Rohit taught me a ton about the topic and I think it's going to be one of the most impactful early applications of Generative Feedback Loops! Rohit is building Portkey, a SUPER interesting LLM middleware that does things like load balancing between LLM APIs, and as discussed in the podcast there are all sorts of opportunities for this kind of space whether it be routing to tool-specific LLMs, different cost / accuracy requirements, or multiple models in the HuggingGPT sense. It was amazing chatting with Rohit, this was the best dive into LLMOps I have personally been apart of! As always we are more than happy to answer any questions or discuss any ideas you have about the content in the podcast! Check out portkey here! https://portkey.ai/blog Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:24 Portkey, Founding Vision 2:20 LLMOps vs. MLOps 4:00 Inference Hosting Options 7:05 3 Layers of LLM Use 8:35 LLM Load Balancers 12:45 Fine-Tuning LLMs 17:08 Retrieval-Aware Tuning 21:16 Portkey Cost Savings 23:08 HuggingGPT 26:28 Semantic Caching 32:40 Frequently Asked Questions 34:00 Embeddings vs. Generative Tasks 35:30 AI Moats, GPT Wrappers 39:56 Unlocks from Cheaper LLM Inference