Bob van Luijt

Numerous ways to build agents, numerous workflow patterns and applications.

On April 29th we will be hosting a live session where we dive into @weaviate.bsky.social agents, how you can use them, and all of our future agentic plans! Join us 👇

www.linkedin.com/events/73157...

Crowd of people watching talk at the DevWorld conference

Main stage @devworldconference.bsky.social Amsterdam, talking about.... 🥁... AI!

Thank you!

Build a personal shopping assistant in less than 5 minutes with the new @weaviate.bsky.social Query Agent!

👩‍🍳 To get started, try out the recipe! You’ll end up building an e-commerce assistant agent: colab.research.google.com/github/weavi...

There are valid concerns when it comes to how we use agents today and how we should prepare to use them in future.

1️⃣ AI agents as ‘research assistants’,
2️⃣ Agentic workflows, some involving human-in-the-loop systems.
3️⃣ Safety nets, such as ‘undo’.

👌 Last night’s Anthropic event in London was cool!
🔮 Gave a sneak peek about what’s coming to Weaviate and shared why we are excited about the Model Context Protocol

Agents can seem a bit like wizardry, so I've been working on an intro 💚

🧙 The way I like to explain it is by comparing most LLMs in agentic AI applications today to a wizard with a spell book (tools). It's been granted instructions for bunch of spells 🪄

Read on here: weaviate.io/blog/ai-agents

🙌 Join me this Thursday in London during a founder event where I’ll showcase @anthropic.com + @weaviate.bsky.social and where you can see other speakers from Raycast and Lovable!
👉 lu.ma/anthropicLON...

🙌 I've had so much fun being on the Beyond Coding podcast!
✅ How open source can fuel massive adoption before monetization
✅ How to hire a winning team
✅ Why most founders overthink instead of just starting
📺 Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iax1...
🔈 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5XAG...

🥳 Oh man – I'm so happy to see this paper live on ArXiv! 🔜 This paper is such a cool sneak peek based on things that are coming to Weaviate and our users (soon more)!
🙏 A big thank you to all the authors!
👉 Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00032

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🙌 This podcast with Barry Hayles from Temy was much fun!
💡 I've shared how we've been building @weaviate.bsky.social over the past couple of years
👉 watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9wh...

🤭 Excited to share my interview with @alexwilhelm.bsky.social on This Week in Startups!
🧐 We've talked about vector embeddings, @weaviate.bsky.social, agentic architectures, and whatnot
🔥 It was awesome!
👉 Check out the interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmG...

I talk about RAG so much, I could fill a book.

So, we did - and you can download it for free.

Together with my colleagues Mary & Prajjwal, we curated an e-book of the most effective advanced RAG techniques.

Which ones did we miss?

Get it now: weaviate.io/ebooks/advan...

🔥 This is the real deal! Ajit Mistry and Etienne Dilocker on stage during NVIDIA's GTC 2025!
👉 www.nvidia.com/gtc/session-...

🚨 New Forbes blog alert
🙌 𝗚𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗢𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵
💡 Are you leveraging AI to save dollars or make them?
🔗 www.forbes.com/councils/for...

👉 Get started here: cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/ge...
📗 Notebook: github.com/GoogleCloudP...
💡 Soon, many more examples!

YouTube video by Demo Day KINDNESS: How Weaviate Built an Elite AI Team

📺 Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ShO...
🔈 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4KKD...

🔥 Joining Danel Dayan on the Demo Day podcast with Jackson Fordyc and Josiah Simons was lots of fun!
🤝 Among other things, we've discussed our awesome collaboration with Danel and the @batteryventures.bsky.social team
💚 Building a strong company culture at Weaviate
🚌 and, of course, yellow Hummers

Now is the Time to Build | Weaviate’s Bob van Luijt Chain of Thought · Episode

🤘 I've had a great time talking to Conor Bronsdon on Galileo’s Chain of Thought podcast!
💡We’ve talked about many things but mostly about this being the time to build and some exciting things come down the Weaviate-pike!
🎙️ Listen on Spotify to the full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/4Jml...

Happy New Year from everyone here at Weaviate! 🎉

Thank you all for another year full of innovation, community, and great memories. We appreciate each and every one of you, and cannot wait to see what is in store for 2025!

Cheers to another trip around the sun!! 💚🥂

Jack Stratton is a true marketing genius, indeed

🔥 I just did a fun panel on (drum roll) AI! My message was simple: 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴❗

🚢 Weaviate team keeps shipping!

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🎌 今日は素晴らしい日です！なぜなら「Weaviate Japan Summit」の日だからです！イベントは満席となり、私たちのウェブサイトでは素晴らしいハイブリッド検索のチュートリアルを公開しています！
👉 weaviate.io/blog/hybrid-...

Building Human Connection in a Technical World: The Weaviate Approach to Marketing - Battery Ventures The best part of my job is that I get to meet so many wonderful people, but I don’t always remember the exact moment we met. But I definitely remember meeting Bob van Luijt, CEO of Weaviate.* When I i...

🙏 ​I'm so proud of this blog post and grateful for how well @batteryventures.bsky.social's Megan O’Leary captured our approach to positioning @weaviate.bsky.social in the market
👉 Read the post here: www.battery.com/blog/buildin...

YouTube video by ARTE Concert Brad Mehldau Trio - Nancy Jazz Pulsations - ARTE Concert

Ohh this @bradmehldau.bsky.social concert is so 😙👌 it’s on repeat the whole weekend youtu.be/HJ1TiAnRZ-I

I love it when people keep sending me automated emails asking me why I didn't respond to their automated emails in which they pitch their services for increased response rates to their automated email services

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