Tag: search applications

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting James Luan

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/8/james-luan/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting James Luan Feedly Summary: I recently spoke with the CTO of a popular AI note-taking app who told me something surprising: they spend twice as much on vector search as they do on OpenAI API calls. Think about that for a second. Running the retrieval layer…

  • AWS News Blog: AWS Weekly Roundup: South America expansion, Q Developer in OpenSearch, and more (May 12, 2025)

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-south-america-expansion-q-developer-in-opensearch-and-more-may-12-2025/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS Weekly Roundup: South America expansion, Q Developer in OpenSearch, and more (May 12, 2025) Feedly Summary: I’ve always been fascinated by how quickly we’re able to stand up new Regions and Availability Zones at AWS. Today there are 36 launched Regions and 114 launched Availability Zones.…

  • Slashdot: Google is Putting AI Mode Right in Search

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/1723229/google-is-putting-ai-mode-right-in-search?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google is Putting AI Mode Right in Search Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s upcoming rollout of an AI Mode tab in its Search platform signifies a strategic shift towards integrating AI technologies in user interactions. This new feature aims to enhance search functionality by providing…

  • Cloud Blog: ScaNN for AlloyDB: The first PostgreSQL vector search index that works well from millions to billion of vectors

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/how-scann-for-alloydb-vector-search-compares-to-pgvector-hnsw/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: ScaNN for AlloyDB: The first PostgreSQL vector search index that works well from millions to billion of vectors Feedly Summary: Executive Summary – ScaNN for AlloyDB is the first Postgres-based vector search extension that supports vector indexes of all sizes, while providing fast index builds, fast transactional updates,…

  • The Register: Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/hlrs_supercomputer_hunter/ Source: The Register Title: Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer Feedly Summary: €15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 Hundreds of AMD APUs fired up on Thursday as Germany’s High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart announced the completion of its latest supercomputer dubbed…

  • Cloud Blog: How Vertex AI’s vector search helps unlock high-performance gen AI apps

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/build-fast-and-scalable-ai-applications-with-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Vertex AI’s vector search helps unlock high-performance gen AI apps Feedly Summary: Think about your favorite apps – the ones that deliver instant results from massive amounts of data. They’re likely powered by vector search, the same technology that fuels generative AI. Vector search is crucial for…

  • Hacker News: PaliGemma 2: Powerful Vision-Language Models, Simple Fine-Tuning

    Source URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-paligemma-2-powerful-vision-language-models-simple-fine-tuning/ Source: Hacker News Title: PaliGemma 2: Powerful Vision-Language Models, Simple Fine-Tuning Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces PaliGemma 2, an advanced vision-language model that enhances AI’s ability to interpret and interact with visual inputs. It emphasizes scalability, context-aware captioning, and ease of upgrading, presenting significant implications…

  • Hacker News: Cascading retrieval: Unifying dense and sparse vector embeddings with reranking

    Source URL: https://www.pinecone.io/blog/cascading-retrieval/ Source: Hacker News Title: Cascading retrieval: Unifying dense and sparse vector embeddings with reranking Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Pinecone has introduced new cascading retrieval capabilities for AI search applications, enhancing the integration of dense and sparse retrieval systems. These advancements, which reportedly improve performance by up to…

  • The Register: Eviden seals €60M deal for Finnish supercomputer amid Atos turmoil

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/eviden_finland_supercomputer/ Source: The Register Title: Eviden seals €60M deal for Finnish supercomputer amid Atos turmoil Feedly Summary: Despite parent’s financial turbulence, subsidiary continues to secure major contracts Eviden continues to win supercomputer contracts despite the struggles of parent company Atos, announcing a €60 million ($63 million) signing for a Finnish national supercomputer that…

  • Hacker News: AMD Open-Source 1B OLMo Language Models

    Source URL: https://www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/technical-articles/introducing-the-first-amd-1b-language-model.html Source: Hacker News Title: AMD Open-Source 1B OLMo Language Models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses AMD’s development and release of the OLMo series, a set of open-source large language models (LLMs) designed to cater to specific organizational needs through customizable training and architecture adjustments. This…