The History of the Weaviate Vector Search Engine

Written by semi-technologies | Published 2020/05/10
Tech Story Tags: weaviate | search-engine | word-embeddings | hnsw | vector-search | open-source | latest-tech-stories | good-company

TLDR Weaviate is an open-source search engine with a build-in NLP model called the Contextionary. It stores data in a vector space rather than a more traditional row-column or graph structure. Bob van Luijt explains the history of the concept of word embeddings in an article that contained a machine-learning algorithm to turn individual words into embedding called GloVe. He also explains how the concept was born, and where we are heading towards in the near future.via the TL;DR App

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Written by semi-technologies | We maintain the open source Vector Search Engine Weaviate
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/05/10