Vector Podcast
Episodes
Trey Grainger - Wormhole Vectors
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lightning session introduces a new idea in vector search - Wormhole vectors!It has deep roots in physics and allows for transcending spaces of an...
Economical way of serving vector search workloads with Simon Eskildsen, CEO Turbopuffer
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Turbopuffer search engine supports such products as Cursor, Notion, Linear, Superhuman and Readwise.This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/I8Ztqaji...
Adding ML layer to Search: Hybrid Search Optimizer with Daniel Wrigley and Eric Pugh
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vector Podcast website: https://vectorpodcast.comHaystack US 2025: https://haystackconf.com/2025/Federated search, Keyword & Neural Search, ML Opt...
Vector Databases: The Rise, Fall and Future - by NotebookLM
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
https://www.vectorpodcast.com/I had fun interacting with NotebookLM - mostly for self-educational purposes. I think this tool can help by bringing an ...
Code search, Copilot, LLM prompting with empathy and Artifacts with John Berryman
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vector Podcast website: https://vectorpodcast.comGet your copy of John's new book "Prompt Engineering for LLMs: The Art and Science of Building Large ...
Debunking myths of vector search and LLMs with Leo Boytsov
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
00:00 Intro01:31 Leo's story09:59 SPLADE: single model to solve both dense and sparse?21:06 DeepImpact29:58 NMSLIB: what are non-metric spaces34:21 Ho...
Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Alessandro Benedetti - LLMs in Solr
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNB70TbQUBEAlessandro's talk on Hybrid Search with Apache Solr Reciprocal Rank Fusion: https:...
Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Sonam Pankaj - EmbedAnything
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dVIPBxHJ1kQ00:00 Intro00:15 Greets for Sonam01:02 Importance of metric learning3:37 Sonam's background: Rasa...
Berlin Buzzwords 2024 - Doug Turnbull - Learning in Public
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIPC_xzqJ0o00:00 Intro00:30 Greets for Doug01:46 Apache Solr and stuff03:08 Hello LTR project...
Eric Pugh - Measuring Search Quality with Quepid
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L7UjjPz5wM00:00 Intro00:21 Guest Introduction: Eric Pugh03:00 Eric's story in search and the...
Sid Probstein, part II - Bring AI to company data with SWIRL
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fafSkzKpfw00:00 Intro01:54 Reflection on the past year in AI08:08 Reader LLM (and RAG)12:36 ...
Louis Brandy - SQL meets Vector Search at Rockset
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiwqVlDpsl800:00 Intro00:42 Louis's background05:39 From Facebook to Rockset07:41 Embeddings ...
Saurabh Rai - Growing Resume Matcher
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx6BH9Z_gBATopics:00:00 Intro - how do you like our new design?00:52 Greets01:55 Saurabh's ba...
Sid Probstein - Creator of SWIRL - Search in siloed data with LLMs
22 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Topics:00:00 Intro00:22 Quick demo of SWIRL on the summary transcript of this episode01:29 Sid’s background08:50 Enterprise vs Federated search17:48...
Atita Arora - Search Relevance Consultant - Revolutionizing E-commerce with Vector Search
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Topics:00:00 Intro02:20 Atita’s path into search engineering09:00 When it’s time to contribute to open source12:08 Taking management role vs softw...
Connor Shorten - Research Scientist, Weaviate - ChatGPT, LLMs, Form vs Meaning
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Topics:00:00 Intro01:54 Things Connor learnt in the past year that changed his perception of Vector Search02:42 Is search becoming conversational?05:4...
Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya - Data Advocate, Toloka - Data at the core of all the cool ML
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Toloka’s support for Academia: grants and educator partnershipshttps://toloka.ai/collaboration-with-educators-formhttps://toloka.ai/research-grants-...
Yaniv Vaknin - Director of Product, Searchium - Hardware accelerated vector search
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
00:00 Introduction01:11 Yaniv’s background and intro to Searchium & GSI04:12 Ways to consume the APU acceleration for vector search05:39 Power c...
Doug Turnbull - Staff Relevance Engineer, Shopify - Search as a constant experimentation cycle
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpua1Euc-B8Topics:00:00 Intro01:30 Doug’s story in Search04:55 How Quepid came about10:57 R...
Malte Pietsch - CTO, Deepset - Passion in NLP and bridging the academia-industry gap with Haystack
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Brb7Rzc2cTopics:00:00 Introduction01:12 Malte’s background07:58 NLP crossing paths with Search11:20 Produ...
Max Irwin - Founder, MAX.IO - On economics of scale in embedding computation with Mighty
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
00:00 Introduction01:10 Max's deep experience in search and how he transitioned from structured data08:28 Query-term dependence problem and Max's perc...
Grant Ingersoll - Fractional CTO, Leading Search Consultant - Engineering Better Search
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4HEpyur-OEVector Podcast LiveTopics:00:00 Kick-off introducing co:rise study platform03:03 Grant’s backgro...
Daniel Tunkelang - Leading Search Consultant - Leveraging ML for query and content understanding
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyXggc4LNKITopics:00:00 Kick-off by Judy Zhu01:33 Introduction by Dmitry Kan and his bio!03:03 Daniel’s bac...
Yusuf Sarıgöz - AI Research Engineer, Qdrant - Getting to know your data with metric learning
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU0O_6-EY6sTopics:00:00 Intro01:03 Yusuf’s background03:00 Multimodal search in tech and humans08:53 CLIP: ...
Jo Bergum - Distinguished Engineer, Yahoo! Vespa - Journey of Vespa from Sparse into Neural Search
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Topics:00:00 Introduction01:21 Jo Kristian’s background in Search / Recommendations since 2001 in Fast Search & Transfer (FAST)03:16 Nice words ...
Amin Ahmad - CTO, Vectara - Algolia / Elasticsearch-like search product on neural search principles
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2tZ6HD4I44Update: ZIR.AI has relaunched as Vectara: https://vectara.com/Topics:00:00 Intro00:54 Amin’s bac...
Yury Malkov - Staff Engineer, Twitter - Author of the most adopted ANN algorithm HNSW
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvgD98jWrJMTopics:00:00 Introduction01:04 Yury’s background in laser physics, computer vision and startups0...
Joan Fontanals - Principal Engineer - Jina AI
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Topics:00:00 Intro00:42 Joan's background01:46 What attracted Joan's attention in Jina as a company and product?04:39 Main area of focus for Joan in t...
Tom Lackner - VP Engineering - Classic.com - on Qdrant, NFT, challenges and joys of ML engineering
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVCIDTmiZykShow notes:- The ML Test Score: A Rubric for ML Production Readiness and Technical Debt Reduction ...
Connor Shorten - PhD Researcher - Florida Atlantic University & Founder at Henry AI Labs
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQAT6E3EX6gShow notes:- On the Measure of Intelligence by François Chollet - Part 1: Foundations (Paper Expl...
Filip Haltmayer (Data Engineer, Ziliz) on Milvus vector database and working with clients
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHu8b-EzOzUOrder your Milvus t-shirt / hoodie! https://milvus.typeform.com/to/IrnLAgui Thanks Filip for arran...
Bob van Luijt (CEO, Semi) on the Weaviate vector search engine
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHC5oeAN29oShow notes:1. Layering problem: www.edge.org/conversation/sean_…-layers-of-reality2. Podcast wit...
Greg Kogan - Pinecone - Vector Podcast with Dmitry Kan
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes:1. Pinecone 2.0: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/pinecon... It is GA and free: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/v2-pric...2. Get your “Love Th...