Berlin Buzzwords 2026 - Charlie Hull on role of Search in AI era
This episode was recorded LIVE during Berlin Buzzwords 2026
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This episode was recorded LIVE during Berlin Buzzwords 2026
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This is a LIVE discussion with Julien Nioche, the creator of SPRUCE, open source greenops framework. We recorded LIVE at Berlin Buzzwords 2026.
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This episode was recorded LIVE at the Berlin Buzzwords 2026
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In this episode we sat down with Ohad Levi, co-founder and CEO of Hyperspace, to discuss the harware-accelerated search product he has built to address the search latency problem.
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Webinar I gave with AI Camp and Aiven on AI-ready data backbone, and specifically how OpenSearch unlocks AI-powered search and log analytics
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This lightning session introduces a new idea in vector search - Wormhole vectors! It has deep roots in physics and allows for transcending spaces of any nature: sparse, vector and behaviour (but could theoretically be any N-dimensional space).
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Turbopuffer search engine supports such products as Cursor, Notion, Linear, Superhuman and Readwise.
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Vector Podcast website: https://vectorpodcast.com Dmitry's recent blog on vector database industry: https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/the-rise-fall-and-future-of-vector-databases-how-to-pick-the-one-that-lasts-6b9fbb43bbbe
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Course page: https://studies.helsinki.fi/courses/course-implementation/hy-opt-cur-2425-12ceef6e-ec52-4d28-a267-06c9f2149328/LDA-T312 Course GitHub: https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/LLM-course-2024
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Course page: https://studies.helsinki.fi/courses/course-implementation/hy-opt-cur-2425-12ceef6e-ec52-4d28-a267-06c9f2149328/LDA-T312 GitHub repo: https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/LLM-course-2024
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Alessandro's talk on Hybrid Search with Apache Solr Reciprocal Rank Fusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x2cbT5CCEM&list=PLq-odUc2x7i8jHpa6PHGzmxfAPEz-c-on&index=5
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00:00 Intro 00:15 Greets for Sonam 01:02 Importance of metric learning 3:37 Sonam's background: Rasa, Qdrant 4:31 What's EmbedAnything 5:52 What a user gets 8:48 Do I need to know Rust? 10:18 Call-out to the community 10:35 Multimodality 12:32 How to evaluate quality of…
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00:00 Intro 00:30 Greets for Doug 01:46 Apache Solr and stuff 03:08 Hello LTR project 04:42 Secret sauce of Doug's continuous blogging 08:50 SearchArray 13:22 Running complex ML experiments 17:29 Efficient search orgs 22:58 Writing a book on search and AI
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00:00 Intro 00:21 Guest Introduction: Eric Pugh 03:00 Eric's story in search and the evolution of search technology 7:27 Quepid: Improving Search Relevancy 10:08 When to use Quepid 14:53 Flash back to Apache Solr 1.4 and the book (of which Eric is one author) 17:49 Quepid Demo…
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00:00 Intro 01:54 Reflection on the past year in AI 08:08 Reader LLM (and RAG) 12:36 Does it need fine-tuning to a domain? 14:20 How LLMs can lie 17:32 What if data isn't perfect 21:21 SWIRL's secret sauce with Reader LLM 23:55 Feedback loop 26:14 Some surprising client…
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00:00 Intro 00:42 Louis's background 05:39 From Facebook to Rockset 07:41 Embeddings prior to deep learning / LLM era 12:35 What's Rockset as a product 15:27 Use cases 18:04 RocksDB as part of Rockset 20:33 AI capabilities: ANN index, hybrid search 25:11 Types of hybrid search…
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Topics: 00:00 Intro - how do you like our new design? 00:52 Greets 01:55 Saurabh's background 03:04 Resume Matcher: 4.5K stars, 800 community members, 1.5K forks 04:11 How did you grow the project? 05:42 Target audience and how to use Resume Matcher 09:00 How did you attract so…
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Topics: 00:00 Intro 00:22 Quick demo of SWIRL on the summary transcript of this episode 01:29 Sid's background 08:50 Enterprise vs Federated search 17:48 How vector search covers for missing folksonomy in enterprise data 26:07 Relevancy from vector search standpoint 31:58 How…
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Topics: 00:00 Intro 02:20 Atita's path into search engineering 09:00 When it's time to contribute to open source 12:08 Taking management role vs software development 14:36 Knowing what you like (and coming up with a Solr course) 19:16 Read the source code (and cook) 23:32 Open…
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Topics: 00:00 Intro 01:54 Things Connor learnt in the past year that changed his perception of Vector Search 02:42 Is search becoming conversational? 05:46 Connor asks Dmitry: How Large Language Models will change Search? 08:39 Vector Search Pyramid 09:53 Large models, data,…
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Toloka's support for Academia: grants and educator partnerships
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Topics: 00:00 Introduction 01:11 Yaniv’s background and intro to Searchium & GSI 04:12 Ways to consume the APU acceleration for vector search 05:39 Power consumption dimension in vector search 7:40 Place of the platform in terms of applications, use cases and developer…
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You will find links to Spotify, Apple Podcasts and pure RSS here: https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/search-as-a-constant-experimentation-cycle-ae399ac1dda6
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Topics: 00:00 Introduction 01:12 Malte's background 07:58 NLP crossing paths with Search 11:20 Product discovery: early stage repetitive use cases pre-dating Haystack 16:25 Acyclic directed graph for modeling a complex search pipeline 18:22 Early integrations with Vector…
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This is a LIVE session from Berlin Buzzwords 2022 with:
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Topics: 00:00 Introduction 01:10 Max's deep experience in search and how he transitioned from structured data 08:28 Query-term dependence problem and Max's perception of the Vector Search field 12:46 Is vector search a solution looking for a problem? 20:16 How to move embeddings…
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Vector Podcast Live
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Topics: 00:00 Intro 01:03 Yusuf's background 03:00 Multimodal search in tech and humans 08:53 CLIP: discovering hidden semantics 13:02 Where to start to apply metric learning in practice. AutoEncoder architecture included! 19:00 Unpacking it further: what is metric learning and…
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Topics: 00:00 Introduction 01:21 Jo Kristian’s background in Search / Recommendations since 2001 in Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) 03:16 Nice words about Trondheim 04:37 Role of NTNU in supplying search talent and having roots in FAST 05:33 History of Vespa from keyword search…
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Search with ML Course: https://corise.com/course/search-with-machine-learning Instructors: Grant Ingersoll, Daniel Tunkelang Assistant: Judy Zhu
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- Interactive lecture - Building NLP Applications course - University of Helsinki
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Update: ZIR.AI has relaunched as Vectara: https://vectara.com/
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Topics: 00:00 Introduction 01:04 Yury's background in laser physics, computer vision and startups 05:14 How Yury entered the field of nearest neighbor search and his impression of it 09:03 "Not all Small Worlds are Navigable" 10:10 Gentle introduction into the theory of Small…
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Topics: 00:00 Intro 00:42 Joan's background 01:46 What attracted Joan's attention in Jina as a company and product? 04:39 Main area of focus for Joan in the product 05:46 How Open Source model works for Jina? 08:38 Deeper dive into Jina.AI as a product and technology stack 11:57…
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Topics: 00:00 - Intro 01:07 - Connor's background: from basketball to deep learning research and data augmentation 05:36 - What inspired Connor to launch Henry AI Labs YouTube show -- similarity to standup comedy? 07:53 - Data augmentation in Computer Vision vs Natural Language…
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Topics: 00:00 Intro 00:45 Filip's background and how he ended up working for Ziliz after graduation from UC Santa Cruz 01:56 What is it like to work as a Data Engineer directly with users? 5:28 Are your users aware that vector search is involved? Filip shares user % split! 8:53…
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Bob van Luijt about the origin, business and use cases of the Weaviate vector search engine
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Topics: 00:00 Introduction 00:51 Greg's background and the road to tech startups 03:57 What's Pinecone and what's new in 2.0 release? Hybrid storage and 10x cost reduction 07:34 Greg's cool T-shirt: Love Thy Nearest Neighbour. Get yours by emailing to Greg! 08:01 How do you…
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