Patrice Bourgougnon on WPSolr - Weaviate Podcast #60

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 60th Weaviate podcast with Patrice Bourgougnon! Patrice is the creator of WPSolr, integrating AI search capabilities with Wordpress and Woocommerce. Patrice is one of the most active contributors to Weaviate, filing issues and poking holes in new releases! Patrice shared incredible feedback on Weaviate and how he sees the state of Vector Databases and Search! As always, we are more than happy to answer any questions or ideas you have about the content discussed in the podcast! Thanks for watching! Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:45 Vector Databases and Wordpress 4:50 Weaviate Client Languages 10:00 Inference and Database Container Management 21:30 Business Opportunities for Search in Production 26:40 Testing Search Performance, “Something to sleep on” 30:50 Zero-Shot Model Ability 36:05 Make LLMs Stateful 43:46 Chatbots and Search Boxes 44:55 Mixing Models in Applications 47:00 BM25 vs. Vector Search in RETRO RAG