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Since Dec 2021
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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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Knowledge Engineering with Bradley Allen - Weaviate Podcast #139!

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Dr. Bradley Allen brings five decades of AI history into a deep conversation on knowledge engineering, neurosymbolic AI, and the future of enterprise intelligence. The discussion begins with the…

Booking.com and Weaviate with Başak Eskili - Weaviate Podcast #138!

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Başak Eskili joins the Weaviate Podcast to explore how one of the world’s largest travel platforms adopted vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic AI at production scale. The…

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May 05, 2026 1h 1m

Dr. Nandan Thakur returns to the Weaviate Podcast fresh off defending his dissertation to discuss the evolution from neural retrieval to agentic search and his new work on Orbit, a synthetic training…

AgentIR with Zijian Chen and Xueguang Ma - Weaviate Podcast #136!

Apr 27, 2026 1h 3m

Zijian Chen and Xueguang Ma from the University of Waterloo join the Weaviate Podcast to discuss AgentIR and why retrieval systems need to be redesigned from the ground up for AI agents. The…

Data Agents with Shreya Shankar - Weaviate Podcast #135!

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Shreya Shankar from UC Berkeley joins the Weaviate Podcast to discuss data agents, the Data Agent Benchmark, and DocETL. The conversation opens with defining what a data agent actually is, not just…

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Dec 08, 2025 1h

Thomas van Dongen is the head of AI engineering at Springer Nature and the creator of Pyversity! Pyversity is a fast, lightweight open-source Python library for diversifying retrieval results.…

Semantic Query Engines with Matthew Russo - Weaviate Podcast #131!

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Matthew Russo is a Ph.D. student at MIT where he is researching the intersection of AI and Database Systems. AI is transforming Database Systems. Perhaps the biggest impact so far has been natural…

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Nov 03, 2025 1h

Xiaoqiang Lin is a Ph.D. student at the National University of Singapore. During his time at Meta, Xiaoqiang lead the research behind REFRAG: Rethinking RAG-based Decoding. Traditional RAG systems…

Weaviate and SAS with Saurabh Mishra and Bob van Luijt - Weaviate Podcast #129!

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Weaviate's Query Agent with Charles Pierse - Weaviate Podcast #128!

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Charles Pierse is the Director of the Weaviate Labs team, where he has recently lead the GA release of the Weaviate Query Agent. The podcast begins with the journey from alpha to GA release,…

GEPA with Lakshya A. Agrawal - Weaviate Podcast #127!

Aug 13, 2025 1h 1m

Lakshya A. Agrawal is a Ph.D. student at U.C. Berkeley! Lakshya has lead the research behind GEPA, one of the newest innovations in DSPy and the use of Large Language Models as Optimizers! GEPA makes…

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Jul 09, 2025 1h 5m

Maarten Grootendorst is a psychologist turned AI engineer who has created BERTopic and authored "Hands-On Large Language Models" with Jay Alammar. The rise of LLMs and Agents are transforming many…

Sufficient Context with Hailey Joren - Weaviate Podcast #125!

Jul 02, 2025 50m

Hailey Joren is a Ph.D. student at UCSD! Hailey and collaborators at Duke University and Google have recently published Sufficient Context: A New Lens on Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems in…

RAG Benchmarks with Nandan Thakur - Weaviate Podcast #124!

Jun 25, 2025 1h 4m

Nandan Thakur is a Ph.D. student at the University of Waterloo! Nandan has worked on many of the most impactful works in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Information Retrieval. His work…

MUVERA with Rajesh Jayaram and Roberto Esposito - Weaviate Podcast #123!

May 28, 2025 1h 13m

Multi-vector retrieval offers richer, more nuanced search, but often comes with a significant cost in storage and computational overhead. How can we harness the power of multi-vector representations…

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May 15, 2025 1h 1m

AI agents are getting more complex and harder to debug. How do you know what's happening when your agent makes 20+ function calls? What if you have a Multi-Agent System orchestrating several Agents?…

Haize Labs with Leonard Tang - Weaviate Podcast #121!

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