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Announcing the Vespa ColBERT embedder

Announcing the native Vespa ColBERT embedder in Vespa, enabling explainable semantic search using token-level vector representations

GigaOm Sonar for Vector Databases Positions Vespa as a Leader

Although we're more than a vector database, we're happy to be recognized as a leader in this category

Exploring the potential of OpenAI Matryoshka 🪆 embeddings with Vespa

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Exploring the potential of OpenAI Matryoshka 🪆 embeddings with Vespa

Using the "shortening" properties of OpenAI v3 embedding models to greatly reduce latency/cost while retaining near-exact quality

Announcing IN query operator

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Announcing IN query operator

The new IN operator is a shorthand for multiple OR conditions, enabling writing more concise queries with better performance

Redefining Hybrid Search Possibilities with Vespa - part one

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Redefining Hybrid Search Possibilities with Vespa - part one

This is the first blog post in a series on hybrid search. This first post focuses on efficient hybrid retrieval and representational approaches in IR

Announcing Vespa Cloud Enclave: Bring your own cloud

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Announcing Vespa Cloud Enclave: Bring your own cloud

Deploy your Vespa Cloud applications inside AWS accounts or GCP projects you own, while still managed and operated by Vespa.ai.

Vespa Newsletter, December 2023

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Vespa Newsletter, December 2023

Advances in Vespa features and performance include rank score normalization in the global ranking phase, improved feeding using PyVespa, token authentication, and query match debugging!

Turbocharge RAG with LangChain and Vespa Streaming Mode for Sharded Data

A hands-on guide to connect LangChain with Vespa streaming mode to build cost-efficient RAG applications over naturally sharded data.

A new visual identity for a new era

Today we are starting the roll-out of our new logo and visual identity.

🎄Advent of Tensors 2023 🎅

Prepare to embark on a festive journey as we bring you the Advent of Tensors!

Hands-On RAG guide for personal data with Vespa and LLamaIndex

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Hands-On RAG guide for personal data with Vespa and LLamaIndex

A hands-on guide to using Vespa streaming mode with PyVespa and LLamaIndex.

Changes in OS support for Vespa

Today the supported OS for Vespa 8 is CentOS Stream 8. This is about to change.