Jakub Zavrel

Enterprise AI Safety, Without the Hype - Trends in AI: October 2025 For enterprises and organizations deploying AI applications in production, AI Safety is no longer optional. And by AI Safety we don't mean some abstract "AI risk", but the practical policies, controls...

For enterprises and organizations deploying AI apps in production, AI Safety is no longer optional. And by AI Safety we don't mean some abstract "AI risk", but the practical policies, controls, and engineering that keep systems secure, compliant, and trustworthy.
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Harsh to realize that @bsky.app is not that popular in the Bay Area. Everyone still on Twitter. What's up folks?

Tonight, I am heading out to @Demetrios Brinkmann’s @mlopscommunity.bsky.social AI Agent Builder Summit. Looking to catch up with you if you are around, and talk about where AI products, R&D and engineering is heading, especially in the enterprise.

The AI Conference 2025 - Shaping the future of AI The AI Conference 2025 is a groundbreaking vendor-neutral event brought to you by the creators of MLconf and Ben Lorica.

On 17 September, we talk at The AI Conference about Deep Research and Optimization of Advanced AI Agents. You can also meet us at expo booth 19 where we will be demoing and handing out stroopwafels. This means we have a discount code, so ping us for that.

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We will be hosting Trends in AI by Zeta Alpha on Friday 12th, with a focus on Enterprise RAG. Live from SF *and* Amsterdam.

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OpenSearchCon North America | LF Events Register now for OpenSearchCon North America, Sept 8-10, 2025 in San Jose, CA. Join the open source search community driving the future of search.

What's next? Fernando Rejon Barrera will be speaking together with Eric Pugh next week, about LLM-as-a-Judge and Human-in-the-Loop RAG evals, at the OpenSearch Project Conference in San Jose.

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And then by chance, I ended up in what is probably SF’s best cocktail bar with fellow ScaleNL alum Jonathan Zwaan (Zander Labs) to share notes on the coolest conferences and meetups for the next two weeks. What a start!

With so many AI events and meetups to pick from, my FOMO is off the charts!

Who cares about jet lag, when the evening is already packed? Fantastic start of the trip thanks to SF Demo Night with high energy pitches from 12 up and coming AI startups, hosted the AI Collective at AWS Startup Loft.

Great landing in San Francisco yesterday: fresh off the plane, I plugged in to the @zeta-alpha.bsky.social office on Mission and 3rd and hit the ground running. We are ready to roll in the Bay Area (see below).

Google may be sitting on a $900 billion gem that could disrupt Nvidia’s dominance Google’s TPUs are the best alternative to Nvidia’s chips and are seeing growing interest, according to D.A. Davidson analysts, who think a potential spinoff of the business would be worth about $900 b...

In the AI hardware lottery, @google has a great ticket: it’s TPUs mean it can scale out AI compute without paying the Nvidia tax. www.marketwatch.com/story/google...

OpenSearch Project - Amsterdam | Meetup Welcome to our group! Perfect for anyone in the Amsterdam area with keen interest in search engineering, open-source search technology, and search relevancy. If you've utilized or are simply curious a...

👉 Who else is going to be there? Would love to connect. Registration for both events is still possible:

- August 27th: OpenSearch Meetup Amsterdam - www.meetup.com/opensearch-p...

- August 29th: AI Dev Event Amsterdam
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If you’re working on AI search, customized complex AI agents, or just curious about where autonomous AI system research is heading, come join the discussion. Let’s push the boundaries of how we discover and organize knowledge together!

We’ll explore how AI agents can collaborate, plan, and optimize themselves to tackle complex research questions at scale - moving beyond Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) into Deep Research agents that are capable of orchestrating enterprise work involving knowledge discovery.

How to automatically evaluate and optimize multi-agent setups for deep research? Excited to share that this week @abcamara.com and I will be giving two talks in Amsterdam on one of our favorite R&D topics.

- August 27th: @opensearch.org Meetup Amsterdam
- August 29th: AI Dev Event Amsterdam #AIDev

AI agents are only as useful as the tools they can reliably access, and the latest release of our Agents SDK makes it easy to connect to MCP servers.

We've prepared a quick guide where we bootstrap a minimal MCP-powered chat agent with just a few lines of code:
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The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation. Here's what it is. | TechCrunch The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described as “the world's first comprehensive AI law” by the European Commission.

The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation. Here’s what it is.

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This was excellent. Highlight of London Tech Week by a large margin.

Trends in AI: April 2025 - by Zeta Alpha · Zoom · Luma Join us for the Zeta Alpha Trends in AI webinar on Thursday, April 3rd, at 8 AM PST / 5 PM CEST (time to be confirmed). This edition comes live from Hannover…

Join us for our monthly Trends in AI webinar on Thursday, April 3rd, at 8 AM PST / 5 PM CEST! This edition comes live from Hannover Messe, the world's leading industrial tech trade fair, and online in Amsterdam, San Francisco, and everywhere else in the world.

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European AI startups power the acceleration of digital capabilities for the continent’s high tech industry, and Germany is in the lead. That's why Zeta Alpha is at #HANNOVERMESSE next week to showcase our latest AI product innovation. And do check out our talk with Festo.

Europe’s new unanimity: Orbán doesn’t need to agree If the Hungarian prime minister wants to go it alone, he’s very welcome to, diplomats say.

Has Europe accidentally found a new modus operandi where a qualified majority can can simply take decisions? www.politico.eu/article/euro...

If you are at #HelloTomorrow2025 and curious about implementing a secure AI Enterprise Search platform with Deep Research on your private data, or just want to talk about the global and European state of AI technology and R&D, ping me for a meeting.

At the Discover Dutch Deep Tech booth and its side events we will be joining a 200 people strong delegation of Dutch founders, investors, and community organizers bringing breakthrough technologies to life, enabled by @4tuethics.bsky.social @rvonl.bsky.social TNO, Techleap and many others.

Over 3,000 participants are in Paris to advance emerging technologies that are set to define our future. As European tech investments are ramping up, and strategic autonomy is becoming more important than ever, the event is buzzing with cool local tech heroes.

One of the advantages of Europe is its wonderful high speed train system. So this morning I hopped on the Eurostar to Paris, where I am proud to represent @zeta-alpha.bsky.social at the Hello Tomorrow 2025 Global Summit on the AI side of the Dutch Deep Tech delegation.

Agents are all the rage - and for good reason. While the concept of agents has been around for decades in traditional software engineering, recent AI breakthroughs have brought them back into the spotlight.

Modern chatbots can exhibit complex and dynamic behaviors without explicit programming, redefining what's possible. Key aspects of this paradigm include orchestration, memory and planning, tool use, and automatic optimization. But what exactly are AI agents?

Europe stands with Ukraine! I just donated to u24.gov.ua and I hope you will too.