Less is More: How Good RAG Design Lets You Use Smaller Language Models
In the race to build better AI applications, theres often an assumption that bigger is better when it comes to language models. However, with careful ...
Chris Bartholomew
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Vectorize Newsletter 2025-01-13
Welcome to the first ever Vectorize newsletter! Well be sharing our latest features, technical insights, and community highlights to help you build be...
Jamie Ferguson
Why You Should Always Use a Reranker When Doing RAG
If youre implementing retrieval augmented generation (RAG), theres one crucial component you might be missing: a reranking model. While vector similar...
Chris Bartholomew
Simplify RAG Pipelines with Vectorize + Qdrant
We’re excited to announce that Vectorize now integrates with Qdrant! 🎉 Qdrant combines sophisticated filtering with fast vector search—its a great ch...
Jamie Ferguson
Designing Agentic AI Systems, Part 4: Data Retrieval and Agentic RAG
Up to this point, weve covered agentic system architecture, how to organize your system into sub-agents and to build uniform mechanisms to standardize...
Chris Latimer
Designing Agentic AI Systems, Part 3: Agent to Agent Interactions
The article discusses creating uniform interaction models in modular agentic systems for effective request dispatching among agents and subagents.
Chris Latimer
Designing Agentic AI Systems, Part 2: Modularity
The article looks at the benefits of modularity in agentic systems, enhancing clarity, maintainability, and reducing complexity.
Chris Latimer
Designing Agentic AI Systems, Part 1: Agent Architectures
This guide outlines how to create efficient agentic systems by focusing on three layers: tools, reasoning, and action. Each layer presents unique chal...
Chris Latimer
Creating a context-sensitive AI assistant: Lessons from building a RAG application
At Vectorize, we want to make it fast and easy for our users to create retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to power their AI applications. ...
Chris Bartholomew
Microagents: building better AI agents with microservices
This thing is a tangled mess. I was relieved to hear the presenter say the words I was thinking. He had just finished walking me through a new AI agen...
Chris Latimer
Automate Your PostgreSQL RAG Pipelines
Vectorize now integrates with PostgreSQL! 🎉 With pgVector, a PostgreSQL extension, you can store vector embeddings directly in your existing database...
Jamie Ferguson
Top 5 Gen AI technologies leading businesses are adopting right now
The accidental architecture. Weve all seen it. A project comes down from the top. Urgent priority. Needs to be done yesterday. So we perform the heroi...
Chris Latimer