

Weaviate Podcast
Weaviate
Join Connor Shorten as he interviews machine learning experts and explores Weaviate use cases from users and customers.
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Aug 17, 2023 • 1h 5min
Nils Reimers on Cohere Search AI - Weaviate Podcast #63!
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.

Aug 9, 2023 • 56min
Atai Barkai on PodcastGPT - Weaviate Podcast #62!
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

Aug 3, 2023 • 49min
Rohit Agarwal on Portkey - Weaviate Podcast #61!
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

Aug 2, 2023 • 1h 26min
Patrice Bourgougnon on WPSolr - Weaviate Podcast #60
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 60th Weaviate podcast with Patrice Bourgougnon! Patrice is the creator of WPSolr, integrating AI search capabilities with Wordpress and Woocommerce. Patrice is one of the most active contributors to Weaviate, filing issues and poking holes in new releases! Patrice shared incredible feedback on Weaviate and how he sees the state of Vector Databases and Search! As always, we are more than happy to answer any questions or ideas you have about the content discussed in the podcast! Thanks for watching!
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Vector Databases and Wordpress
4:50 Weaviate Client Languages
10:00 Inference and Database Container Management
21:30 Business Opportunities for Search in Production
26:40 Testing Search Performance, “Something to sleep on”
30:50 Zero-Shot Model Ability
36:05 Make LLMs Stateful
43:46 Chatbots and Search Boxes
44:55 Mixing Models in Applications
47:00 BM25 vs. Vector Search in RETRO RAG

Jul 18, 2023 • 58min
Andriy Mulyar on Nomic AI, Atlas, and GPT4All - Weaviate Podcast #58
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 58th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! I am SUPER excited to welcome Andriy Muylar! Andriy is the Co-Founder of Nomic AI, a company fresh off a $17M series A raise! Nomic has created some incredible products such as Atlas and GPT4All! I was really impressed by Andriy's vision of the state and forecasted evolution of these topics! I hope you enjoy the podcast! As always, we are more than happy to answer any questions or discuss any ideas you have about the content discussed in the podcast!
Integration Tutorial for Weaviate and Nomic AI Atlas! https://docs.nomic.ai/vector_database.html
This example worked for me if you want to clone it with the podcast transcription dataset: https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate-podcast-search/blob/main/atlas-visualizer.py
Check out Nomic AI here! https://home.nomic.ai/blog
Chapters
0:00 Congrats Nomic and Weaviate Integration!
2:35 Welcome Andriy Mulyar!
3:05 Founding Story of Nomic AI
6:55 Understanding Massive Scale Text Data
10:14 Topic Modeling
16:30 Monitoring Model Training

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Jul 13, 2023 • 1h 39min
Charles Frye on Full Stack Deep Learning - Weaviate Podcast #57!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 57th Weaviate podcast with Charles Frye! Charles is an educator at Full Stack Deep Learning, one of the world's top courses on Deep Learning with lectures available on YouTube (link below)! This was one of the most thorough Weaviate podcasts published so far, covering all sorts of topics around the evolution of Deep Learning! Particularly we discussed the Retrieval-Augmented Generation stack with Vector Databases and Zero-Shot Large Language Models and how that compares to more conventional machine learning workflows and the MLOPs stack! I really enjoyed chatting with Charles and am more than happy to answer any questions or discuss any ideas you have about the content in the podcast! Thank you so much for listening!
Check out Full Stack Deep Learning! https://fullstackdeeplearning.com/
Full Stack Deep Learning on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@The_Full_Stack
Chapters
0:00 Welcome Charles Frye!
0:52 Charles’ journey into Deep Learning
3:00 Weights & Biases and MLOps
5:30 Retrieval-Augmented Generation Stack
8:58 Data Engines and AI Products
13:50 Fine-Tuning
16:35 Information Retrieval Techniques
20:10 RAG as Tool Use and RETRO
23:33 Gorilla and Fine-Tuned Tool Use
27:36 Text-to-SQL Tool Use
30:46 Generative Data Augmentation
33:05 LLM generated queries for embeddings
38:04 Long-Tail and Data Imbalance
41:45 LoRA LLM Fine-Tuning
44:50 Eigenvectors and Disentaglement
50:00 LLM for Each User
55:00 Embedding Visualization and ML Observability
58:40 GPU Utilization
1:05:05 Discord Q&A Bot App
1:16:10 Data Schema Design
1:21:25 Graph and Vector Databases
1:28:35 Future Directions in AI

Jul 12, 2023 • 1h 3min
Etienne Dilocker on Weaviate 1.20 - Weaviate Podcast #56!
Chapters
0:00 Weaviate 1.20!!!
0:40 Multi-Tenancy
35:36 PQ Rescoring
47:20 Re-Ranking, AutoCut, Rank Fusion
58:58 Cloud Monitoring Metrics

Jul 5, 2023 • 1h 7min
Aleksa Gordcic - Weaviate Podcast #55!
Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 55th episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Aleksa Gordcic! This episodes dives into Aleksa's incredible story from Deep Learning YouTube to DeepMind and now creating Ortus! We dived into all sorts of topics, I loved hearing about the latest updates on Ortus and how Aleksa is sees the current state of AI development! We are more than happy to answer any questions or discuss any ideas you might have about the content in the podcast! Thanks so much for watching!
Check out Ortus here! - https://www.ortusbuddy.ai/welcome
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:08 Deep Learning YouTube
5:40 DeepMind
9:40 Ortus
19:50 LangChain and LlamaIndex
23:10 Software 2.0 and Full Stack DL
29:20 Training Embedding Models
32:23 Text Chunking for Vector DBs
34:35 Visual Information in YouTube
38:15 Simulating Conversations
42:46 Aidan Gomez Quote on Synthetic Data
44:40 Tree of Thoughts
47:40 New Ortus Features
49:00 Embedding Marketplace
54:00 Personal Organization

Jun 22, 2023 • 56min
Stephanie Horbaczewski and Gunjan Bhattarai on Vody - Weaviate Podcast #53!
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:38 Founding Story of Vody
8:15 Custom Embedding Models
12:42 Movie Genre Vectors
13:42 Classification and Contrastive Learning
15:45 Foundation Model Tuning
21:13 Multimodal Generative Models
25:08 Training Embedding Models
33:20 Tabular Data Ranking Models
36:00 RoomGPT
41:36 Diversity in Recommendations
48:25 Future Directions in Multimodal AI
51:15 Open-Source
55:45 Keeping up with Vody!

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Jun 14, 2023 • 42min
Yana Welinder on Kraftful - Weaviate Podcast #52!
Hey everyone, thank you so much for watching the 52nd episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Yana Welinder! Yana is the Founder and CEO of Kratful (https://www.kraftful.com/). Kratful is an incredibly interesting "ChatGPT but for Product Research" -- curating specific skills for Product Managers into a collection of prompts. We discussed all sorts of things from the latest innovations in LLMs to the ChatGPT marketplace and product management, I really hope you enjoy the podcast!


