Weaviate Podcast

Mar 03 2025 118 ep. 56 mins 35

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Join Connor Shorten as he interviews machine learning experts and explores Weaviate use cases from users and customers.

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Letta AI with Sarah Wooders - Weaviate Podcast #117!

Mar 03 2025 57 mins

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 117th episode of the Weaviate podcast! In this episode, we dive deep into the cutting edge of AI agent development with Sarah Wooders, co-founder and CTO of Letta AI. Emerging from Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab, Sarah and her team have pioneered a revolutionary approach to stateful agents - AI systems that genuinely remember both

Agent Experience with Matt Biilmann, Sebastian Witalec, and Charles Pierse - Weaviate Podcast #116!

Feb 27 2025 52 mins

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching another episode of the Weaviate Podcast! I am SUPER excited to welcome Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO of Netlify, as well as Sebastian Witalec and Charles Pierse from Weaviate to discuss Agent Experience! You have probably heard about how you can connect LLMs to external software tools. This supercharges the capabilities of AI systems

Optimizing Retrieval Agents with Shirley Wu - Weaviate Podcast #115!

Feb 19 2025 60 mins

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 115th episode of the Weaviate Podcast featuring Shirley Wu from Stanford University!We explore the innovative Avatar Optimizer—a novel framework that leverages contrastive reasoning to refine LLM agent prompts for optimal tool usage. Shirley explains how this self-improving system evolves through iterative feedback by contrasting p

Contextual AI with Amanpreet Singh - Weaviate Podcast #114!

Feb 12 2025 57 mins

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 114th episode of the Weaviate Podcast featuring Amanpreet Singh, Co-Founder and CTO of Contextual AI! Contextual AI is at the forefront of production-grade RAG agents! I learned so much from this conversation! We began by discussing the vision of RAG 2.0, jointly optimizing generative and retrieval models! This then lead us to discus

Cartesia AI with Karan Goel - Weaviate Podcast #113!

Jan 28 2025 53 mins

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 113th episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Karan Goel from Cartesia AI! Cartesia AI is leading the AI world in text-to-speech models! As exciting as these new applications in speech generation are, Cartesia is also building around an incredibly exciting new neural network architecture that cuts across all of AI -- State Space Models.

Google Vertex AI RAG Engine with Lewis Liu and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #112!

Jan 15 2025 58 mins

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 112th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! This is another super exciting one, diving into the release of the Vertex AI RAG Engine, its integration with Weaviate and thoughts on the future of connecting AI systems with knowledge sources! The podcast begins by reflecting on Bob's experience speaking at Google in 2016 on Knowledge Graphs!

Morningstar Intelligence Engine with Aravind Kesiraju - Weaviate Podcast #111!

Jan 08 2025 53 mins

Hey everyone! I am SUPER EXCITED to publish the 111th Weaviate Podcast with Aravind Kesiraju from Morningstar! Aravind is a Principal Software Engineer who has lead the development behind the Morningstar Intelligence Engine! There are so many interesting aspects to this, and if you are building Agentic systems that would benefit from a high-quality financial retrieval API, you shou

Arctic Embed with Luke Merrick, Puxuan Yu, and Charles Pierse - Weaviate Podcast #110!

Dec 18 2024 93 mins

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 110th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! Today we are diving into Snowflake’s Arctic Embedding model series and their newly released Arctic Embed 2.0 open-source model, additionally supporting multilingual text embeddings. The podcast covers the origin of Arctic Embed, Pre-training embedding models, Matryoshka Representation Learning

Agentic RAG with Erika Cardenas - Weaviate Podcast #109!

Nov 13 2024 34 mins

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 109th episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Erika Cardenas! Erika, in collaboration with Leonie Monigatti, have recently published "What is Agentic RAG". This blog post that was even covered in VentureBeat with additional quotes from Weaviate Co-Founder and CEO Bob van Luijt! This podcast continues the discussion on all things Agentic

Let Me Speak Freely? with Zhi Rui Tam - Weaviate Podcast #108!

Nov 07 2024 40 mins

JSON mode has been one of the biggest enablers for working with Large Language Models! JSON mode is even expanding into Multimodal Foundation models! But how exactly is JSON mode achieved? There are generally 3 paths to JSON mode: (1) constrained generation (such as Outlines), (2) begging the model for a JSON response in the prompt, and (3) A two stage process of generate-then-form