This week we feature articles from Dean Allemang, and Daniel Tunkelang.
Additional reading comes from Tim O’Reilly, Bob DuCharme, and Hugo Bowne-Anderson.
News comes from DataStax & Langflow, Vesoft NebulaGraph, Searchspring, and Bridgeline.
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Opinion / Analysis
LLMs and knowledge — the study continues
“… if we think that a knowledge graph and an LLM work better together than an LLM alone, we should do a bake-off; set up a problem for the LLM+Knowledge Graph to solve, and let the LLM+Relational Database work on the same problem. Collect the data from a few hundred runs, and see who does better, and by how much.”
Dean Allemang and Juan Sequeda did, and published their benchmark data on GitHub to encourage interested parties to join the effort. Neo4j’s Jesús Barrasa did so. Find out more about both… (10 min)
https://medium.com/@dallemang/llms-and-knowledge-the-study-continues-593b22fa7c7f
AI-powered search: embedding-based retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
Daniel Tunkelang: “When search application developers consider replacing a traditional search architecture with AI-powered search, they usually have two things in mind. The first is replacing bag-of-words representations with embeddings. The second is implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which typically combines embedding-based retrieval with generative AI. This post explains the main ideas of embedding-based retrieval and RAG, with an emphasis on the pitfalls awaiting the unwary.” (9 min)
https://dtunkelang.medium.com/ai-powered-search-embedding-based-retrieval-and-retrieval-augmented-generation-rag-cabeaba26a8b
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Content technology news
DataStax acquires Langflow
To enable LangChain-based RAG application development for any developer, with visual workflows, reusable components, and one-click deploy.
https://www.datastax.com/blog/datastax-acquires-langflow-to-accelerate-generative-ai-app-development ■ https://www.langflow.org
NebulaGraph Enterprise v3.7.0 simplifies building knowledge graphs
Knowledge Graph Build simplifies knowledge graph construction, reduces costs, and enables the completion of knowledge graphs from data processing through a single platform.
https://www.nebula-graph.io/posts/enterprise_3.7_release
Searchspring acquires Intelligent Reach
Facilitates product discovery with semantic site search, flexible product merchandising, with business rules and AI-driven campaigns.
https://searchspring.com/news/searchspring-acquires-intelligent-reach/
Bridgeline releases Zeus Update with concept and image search
Smart Search’s concept search, image search & GenAI to enhance online shopping search functionality content creation and customer experience.
https://www.hawksearch.com/webinar/meet-zeus-hawksearchs-newest-release
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