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Weaviate Podcast

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

  1. NOV 13

    Agentic RAG with Erika Cardenas - Weaviate Podcast #109!

    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 RAG, covering the basics of Agents, how Agentic RAG changes the game compared to Vanilla RAG systems, Multi-Agent Systems and CrewAI / OpenAI Swarm, Letta, DSPy, and many more! The podcast also anchors by discussing Agentic Generative Feedback Loops and how we are using Agents to improve the quality and expand the capabilities of Generative Feedback Loops!

    34 min

  2. NOV 7

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

    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-format. I am BEYOND EXCITED to publish the 108th Weaviate Podcast with Zhi Rui Tam, the lead author of Let Me Speak Freely? A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of Large Language Models! As the title of the paper suggests, although constrained generation is awesome because of its reliability, we may be sacrificing the performance of the LLM by producing our JSON with this method. The podcast dives into how these experiments identify this and all sorts of details about the potential and implementation details of Structured Outputs. I particularly love the conversation topic of incredible Complex Structured Outputs, such as generating 10 values in a single inference. I hope you enjoy the podcast! As always please reach out if you would like to discuss any of these ideas further!

    40 min

  3. OCT 30

    SWE-bench with John Yang and Carlos E. Jimenez - Weaviate Podcast #107!

    Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 107th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! This one dives into SWE-bench, SWE-agent, and most recently SWE-bench Multimodal with John Yang from Stanford University and Carlos E. Jimenez from Princeton University! One of the most impactful applications of AI we have seen so far is in programming and software engineering! John, Carlos, and team are at the cutting-edge of developing and benchmarking these systems! I learned so much from the conversation and I really hope you find it interesting and useful as well!

    58 min

  4. OCT 22

    AI in Education with Rose E. Wang - Weaviate Podcast #106!

    Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to publish the 106th episode of the Weaviate Podcast featuring Rose E. Wang!! Rose is a Ph.D. student at Stanford University where she has lead incredible research at the cutting-edge of AI applications in Education. The podcast heavily discusses her recent work on Tutor CoPilot! Tutor CoPilot is one of the world's largest randomized control trials on the impact AI is having on education, testing 900 students and 1800 tutors in grades K-12. I think this is such an inspiring study and it is interesting to see the data coming in quantifying the impact AI is having on education. I was amazed by the depth of how Rose things about education and learning strategies and how well she integrates cutting-edge topics in AI! I hope you find the podcast interesting and useful!

    51 min

  5. OCT 17

    Compound AI Systems with Philip Kiely - Weaviate Podcast #105!

    Hey everyone! Thank you so much for tuning into the 105th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! This one features Philip Kiely diving into all sorts of apsects related to Compound AI Systems! We are now seeing far better results with AI models by breaking up tasks into multiple stages and inferences. Philip explains the work they are doing at Baseten to optimize and scale deployments of these emerging systems and all sorts of aspects about them from Structured Generation to their distinction with Agents! I hope you find it useful!

    57 min

  6. SEP 18

    AI Agents That Matter with Sayash Kapoor and Benedikt Stroebl - Weaviate Podcast #104!

    AI Researchers have overfit to maximizing state-of-the-art accuracy at the expense of the cost to run these AI systems! We need to account for cost during optimization. Even if a chatbot can produce an amazing answer, it isn't that valuable if it costs, say $5 per response! I am beyond excited to present the 104th Weaviate Podcast with Sayash Kapoor and Benedikt Stroebl from Princeton Language and Intelligence! Sayash and Benedikt are co-first authors of "AI Agents That Matter"! This is one of my favorite papers I've studied recently which introduces Pareto Optimal optimization to DSPy and really tames the chaos of Agent benchmarking! This was such a fun conversation! I am beyond grateful to have met them both and to feature their research on the Weaviate Podcast! I hope you find it interesting and useful!

    1h 1m

  7. AUG 28

    MIPRO and DSPy with Krista Opsahl-Ong! - Weaviate Podcast #103

    I am beyond excited to publish our interview with Krista Opsahl-Ong from Stanford University! Krista is the lead author of MIPRO, short for Multi-prompt Instruction Proposal Optimizer, and one of the leading developers and scientists behind DSPy! This was such a fun discussion beginning with the motivation of Automated Prompt Engineering, Multi-Layer Language Programs (also commonly referred to as Compound AI Systems), and their intersection. We then dove into the details of how MIPRO achieves this and miscellaneous topics in AI from Structured Outputs to Agents, DSPy for Code Generation, and more! I really hope you enjoy the podcast! As always, more than happy to answer any questions or discuss any ideas about the content in the podcast!

    1h 1m

  8. AUG 14

    AI-Native Development with Guy Podjarny and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #102!

    AI is completely transforming how we build software! But how exactly? What does it mean for a software application to be AI-Native versus AI-Enabled? How many other aspects of software development and creativity are impacted by AI? I am super excited to publish our 102nd Weaviate Podcast with Guy Podjarny and Bob van Luijt on AI-Native Development! Guy Podjarny is a co-founder of Snyk, a remarkably successful Cybersecurity company. He is now back on the founder journey, diving into AI-Native Development with Tessl! Guy and Bob both have so much expertise in how software is developed and shipped to the world. There are so many interesting nuggets in this from defining AI-Native to Stateful AI, AI-assisted coding, subjectivity in software specification, personalized content, and much more! I hope you enjoy the podcast, this was a really fun and interesting one!

    53 min
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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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  • Creator
    Weaviate
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    110
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Weaviate
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    Weaviate Podcast

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