Accuracy over Fluency in Information Retrieval

Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to publish our 97th Weaviate Podcast on the state of AI-powered Search technology featuring Nils Reimers and Erika Cardenas! Erika and I have been super excited about Cohere's latest works to advance RAG and Search and it was amazing getting to pick Nils' brain about all these topics!

We began with the development of Compass! Nils explains the current problem with embeddings as a soup!! For example, imagine embedding this video description, the first part is about the launch of a podcast, whereas this part is about an embedding algorithm -- how do we form representations of multi-aspect chunks of text?

We dove into all the details of this from the distinction of multi-aspect embeddings with LLM or "smart" chunkers, ColBERT, "Embed Small, Retrieve Big", and many other topics as well from Cross Encoder Re-rankers to Data Cleaning with Generative Feedback Loops, RAG Evaluation, Vector Quantization, and more!

I really hope you enjoy the podcast! It was such an educational experience for Erika and I and we really hope you enjoy it as well!