Vectara

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RAG-as-a-service.

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115 total blog posts published.

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post title author published words HN
Introducing Vectara Portal Deryk DeGuzman & Adeel & Ofer Mendelevitch Aug. 21, 2024 1067 -
Gen AI Platform Build vs Buy – Part I: Options and Tradeoffs Justin Hayes Apr. 24, 2024 1795 -
Sankofa – Your Memory Online Ofer Mendelevitch & Adeel Jan. 30, 2024 720 19
Automating Hallucination Detection: Introducing the Vectara Factual Consistency Score Nick Ma Mar. 26, 2024 874 -
RAGTime – A RAG-Powered Bot for Slack and Discord Adeel Jun. 25, 2024 666 -
Building An LLM-Powered Search Box with Vectara Ofer Mendelevitch & CJ Cenizal Apr. 04, 2023 1015 -
Vector Search: What Is Vector Search and How Does it Work? Tallat Shafaat & Talip Ozturk Aug. 22, 2023 1933 -
Fine-Tuning vs Retrieval Augmented Generation Ofer Mendelevitch & Simon Hughes Jul. 26, 2023 1595 -
Introducing Vectara’s Custom Prompt Engine Shane Connelly Feb. 20, 2024 1356 -
Listing Documents in Vectara Shane Connelly & Ofer Mendelevitch Jan. 09, 2024 546 -
Introducing New UI Tools for Vectara Chat – Create UI and React-chatbot Nick Ma Feb. 29, 2024 494 -
The First 3 Women at Vectara – Generating and Advancing a Culture of Success at an AI Startup Felicia Jeffley Jun. 13, 2023 394 -
Deep Dive Into Vectara Multilingual Reranker v1, State-of-the-Art Reranker Across 100+ Languages Vivek Sourabh & Nick Ma May. 28, 2024 2092 -
How to crawl websites for search Shane Connelly Feb. 09, 2023 1015 -
April Fools Prank: New No-hallucinations LLM Ofer Mendelevitch Apr. 01, 2024 641 -
From Keywords to LLMs – The History of Search, and How ChatGPT Has Changed Search Forever Vivek Sourabh Jul. 11, 2023 1069 -
Highlights from The AI Conference 2024: Vectara’s Impact and Industry Trends Miluska Berta & Ofer Mendelevitch Sep. 17, 2024 505 -
React-Search Deryk DeGuzman & CJ Cenizal Jan. 18, 2024 528 -
Power & Precision: Enhancing Operational GenAI with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Vectara Bader Hamdan & Ebrahim Alareqi & Justin Hayes Jul. 29, 2024 1226 -
Cut the Bull…. Detecting Hallucinations in Large Language Models Simon Hughes Nov. 06, 2023 2305 -
Large Language Models for Code Generation – Part 2 Ofer Mendelevitch May. 18, 2023 1008 -
HHEM v2: A New and Improved Factual Consistency Scoring Model Forrest Bao & Miaoran Li & Rogger Luo Apr. 16, 2024 1801 -
New Release: “Grounded Generation” Shane Connelly & CJ Cenizal May. 30, 2023 592 -
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Done Right: Document Stores Ofer Mendelevitch Jan. 23, 2024 1236 -
Searching Hacker News Ofer Mendelevitch Jul. 02, 2024 621 -
Building GenAI Enterprise Applications with Vectara and Datavolo Ofer Mendelevitch & Justin Hayes & Alex Ethier & Sam Lachterman & Sean Petrie Apr. 08, 2024 2844 -
Introducing Boomerang – Vectara’s New and Improved Retrieval Model Suleman Kazi & Vivek Sourabh Sep. 26, 2023 2018 -
You’re Not an Engineer. Why Should You Care About RAG? Miluska Berta Aug. 29, 2024 885 -
HHEM 2.1: A Better Hallucination Detection Model and a New Leaderboard Ofer Mendelevitch & Forrest Bao & Miaoran Li & Rogger Luo Aug. 05, 2024 1634 2
Large Language Models Use Cases and Applications Justin Hayes Mar. 14, 2023 3253 -
Deep Dive Into Mockingbird: A RAG and Structured Output Focused LLM Suleman Kazi & Vivek Sourabh & Rogger Luo & Abhilasha Lodha Jul. 16, 2024 1779 18
User Interfaces for AI Applications Deryk DeGuzman Mar. 12, 2024 1333 -
Tackling the Bull: Data Council Assembles the Braintrust to Tackle the Biggest Problems in Data and AI Sean Anderson Apr. 25, 2024 1905 -
How Vectara’s New Boomerang Model Takes Retrieval Augmented Generation to the Next Level via Grounded Generation Shane Connelly Sep. 28, 2023 1079 -
Advanced RAG Hackathon Ofer Mendelevitch May. 09, 2024 871 -
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Done Right: Chunking Ofer Mendelevitch Sep. 20, 2023 1791 -
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Done Right: Database Data Ofer Mendelevitch Dec. 06, 2023 2161 -
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Done Right: Retrieval Ofer Mendelevitch Oct. 10, 2023 2079 -
Vectara’s new Personal API keys Ofer Mendelevitch Feb. 28, 2024 572 -
Say Hello to Vectara’s “API Playground” Shane Connelly Mar. 07, 2023 587 -
Building GenAI Applications with Vectara and Unstructured Ofer Mendelevitch Feb. 22, 2024 928 -
Vectara RAG Hackathon Ofer Mendelevitch Dec. 13, 2023 919 -
Not All Chatbots are Created Equal, and Your Decision Could Be Costing You a Fortune Shawn Clink Aug. 24, 2023 1536 -
3 Tips for Startup Recruiting at an AI Company in 2023 Aileen Ajlouni Jun. 27, 2023 817 -
Congratulations to the Winners of the First Ever Built by Vectara Contest Sean Anderson Jun. 05, 2024 1058 -
Learning to Measure AI Search with Vectara Charlie Hull & Matthias Krueger Oct. 09, 2023 1441 -
Vectara and Airbyte Ofer Mendelevitch Jan. 17, 2024 1434 -
Researchers and Analysts: Enhancing Knowledge and Insights with GenAI-powered Answers Nidal Zoghbi Sep. 12, 2023 1161 -
Correcting Hallucinations in Large Language Models Utkarsh Jain & Suleman Kazi & Ofer Mendelevitch Sep. 03, 2024 2162 11
The Great Search Disruption Ofer Mendelevitch & CJ Cenizal Jun. 08, 2023 902 -
Security Guidance for All Authentication Methods Nick Ma Feb. 27, 2024 521 -
The Natural Diversity of Vectara: A Reflection of Our Culture Felicia Jeffley Jul. 23, 2024 444 -
Vector Database: Do You Really Need One? Ofer Mendelevitch Feb. 21, 2024 1299 -
Navigating the Future of Work: Cultivating Connection at Vectara Felicia Jeffley Feb. 13, 2024 595 -
A Reference Architecture for Grounded Generation Ofer Mendelevitch & Tallat Shafaat Aug. 08, 2023 1856 -
Create-UI Deryk DeGuzman & CJ Cenizal Jan. 25, 2024 575 -
Introducing User-Defined Functions for Vectara Shane Connelly Aug. 15, 2024 803 -
Developing Applications with Retrieval Augmented Generation Ofer Mendelevitch Jun. 08, 2023 366 -
Embracing Diversity: The Advantages of Diversity in Tech Internship Programs Felicia Jeffley Sep. 14, 2023 657 -
Avoiding hallucinations in LLM-powered Applications Ofer Mendelevitch May. 02, 2023 1900 -
Do Smaller Models Hallucinate More? Ofer Mendelevitch & Haihao Shen & Dr. Deb Bharadwaj Apr. 11, 2024 699 -
Generative AI Adoption Roadblocks, Pit Stops, Crashes, and Destinations Kyle Gershuny Jul. 10, 2024 4247 -
Using Hybrid Search to Improve In-App Product Search Sean Anderson Oct. 03, 2023 927 -
Reducing Hallucinations in LLMs Rogger Luo Jul. 09, 2024 1863 -
Introducing the Personal API Key: Elevate Your Authentication Experience Nick Ma Feb. 14, 2024 617 -
Vectara-ingest: Data Ingestion made easy Ofer Mendelevitch May. 16, 2023 1361 -
Vectara Chat: Revolutionizing Chat Development for the Modern Business Nick Ma Feb. 15, 2024 798 -
Evaluating RAG with RAGAs Ofer Mendelevitch Apr. 02, 2024 1770 -
Ingesting Data into Vectara Using PyAirbyte Ofer Mendelevitch Mar. 19, 2024 1596 -
HHEM | Flash Update: Fast. But Are They Furious? Ofer Mendelevitch & Miaoran Li May. 15, 2024 307 -
Generative AI: Build vs. Buy and Choosing the Right Path at the Crossroads Ryan Ham Jun. 21, 2023 1786 -
HHEM | Flash Update: Google Gemma Amin Ahmad Feb. 22, 2024 274 -
Generative AI for Legal Teams Sean Anderson Jan. 24, 2024 2439 -
Customers Don’t Like Your Chatbot. Here’s How to Make Them Love It. Sean Anderson Nov. 21, 2023 1872 -
Top Large Language Models (LLMs) Suleman Kazi & Amin Ahmad & Vivek Sourabh & Rogger Luo & Parth Vashisht & Abhilasha Lodha Jun. 26, 2024 1247 -
Introducing Vectara’s v2 API Shane Connelly Jun. 06, 2024 1208 -
Say Goodbye to Delays: Expedite Your Experience with Stream Query Nick Ma Apr. 04, 2024 972 -
Unlocking the State-of-the-Art Reranker: Introducing the Vectara Multilingual Reranker_v1 Nick Ma & Vivek Sourabh May. 28, 2024 571 -
HHEM | Flash Update: Phi 2 Amin Ahmad Jan. 16, 2024 256 -
The Latest Benchmark Between Vectara, OpenAI and Cohere’s Embedding Models Nick Ma & Vivek Sourabh Jun. 13, 2024 634 -
Boosting eCommerce Conversions with Semantic Search Justin Hayes & Jose Montaña Sep. 05, 2023 1174 -
How to Natively Chat with PDFs Aamir Khan Jul. 18, 2023 1758 -
Mockingbird is a RAG-Specific LLM that Beats GPT 4, Gemini 1.5 Pro in RAG Output Quality Nick Ma & Suleman Kazi Jul. 16, 2024 1059 9
How to crawl websites for search (part 2) Shane Connelly Feb. 22, 2023 957 -
Why is Metadata Important in GenAI? Shane Connelly Nov. 28, 2023 1276 -
Improving Customer Support with AI: A Deep Dive into Conversational AI Aamir Khan & Ryan Ham Jan. 31, 2024 1484 -
LlamaIndex + Vectara Ofer Mendelevitch & Logan Markewich Sep. 13, 2023 1434 -
Vectara’s free tier; what can you *really* build? Ed Albanese Jan. 23, 2023 683 -
Managing Vectara’s API Keys Programmatically Shane Connelly Dec. 14, 2023 825 -
How Sankofa was Built with Vectara Adeel Apr. 10, 2024 1288 -
Get Diverse Results and Comprehensive Summaries with Vectara’s MMR Reranker Shane Connelly Dec. 05, 2023 765 -
Introducing Vectara InstantIndex Tallat Shafaat Feb. 28, 2023 1362 -
HHEM | Flash Update: Anthropic Claude 3 Minseok Bae Mar. 06, 2024 351 -
Introducing Vectara-Agentic Ofer Mendelevitch & David Oplatka Aug. 14, 2024 2215 -
Vectara Completes Penetration Testing Tony Pecora Mar. 05, 2024 400 -
How to Implement Hybrid Search Into Your Product for Better Customer Experiences Paul Wozniczka Sep. 19, 2023 2236 -
Large Language Models for Code Generation – Part 1 Ofer Mendelevitch May. 17, 2023 1295 -
Vectara Launches 2 Powerful New Generative Capabilities Shane Connelly May. 16, 2024 684 -
5 Reasons to Use Vectara’s LangChain Integration Ofer Mendelevitch Jun. 15, 2023 1577 -
The Present and Future of Law is being Defined by Generative AI and Legal Minds Nidal Zoghbi May. 01, 2024 1220 -
User and Team Management in Vectara Shane Connelly Dec. 19, 2023 650 -
Retrieval Augmented Generation: Making Generative AI Safe, Trustworthy, and More Relevant Justin Hayes May. 31, 2023 2417 -
Retrieval Augmented Generation Buyer’s Guide David Levy & Justin Hayes Jan. 26, 2024 2724 -
Measuring Hallucinations in RAG Systems Shane Connelly Nov. 06, 2023 1183 -
Top Large Language Models (LLMs): GPT-4, LLaMA 2, Mistral 7B, ChatGPT, and More Suleman Kazi & Adel Elmahdy Oct. 17, 2023 2078 -
Managing Multi-tenancy with Vectara’s New Management APIs Shane Connelly Jan. 03, 2024 767 -
Conversational AI: The First Step to Interacting With Your Data Nidal Zoghbi & Paul Wozniczka Dec. 12, 2023 2626 -
Vectara vs. The Rest (A Go-to-Market Perspective) Hannah Yun Oct. 01, 2024 620 -
Building AI Assistants with Vectara-agentic and Arize Ofer Mendelevitch & John Gilhuly Oct. 03, 2024 1062 -
Introducing Vectara’s Chain Rerankers Shane Connelly Oct. 08, 2024 999 -
Why I Joined Vectara: Catching the Generative AI Rocket Ship Jeff Chapman Oct. 09, 2024 554 -
Automating the Back Office: Enhancing Efficiency and Experience at Startups Mansur Wadalawala Oct. 10, 2024 719 -
Celebrating 2 Million Downloads of HHEM Ofer Mendelevitch Oct. 11, 2024 644 -
Building a RAG Pipeline is Difficult Nikhil Bysani & Ofer Mendelevitch Oct. 17, 2024 1267 -
RAG with User-Defined Functions Based Reranking David Oplatka & Ofer Mendelevitch Oct. 23, 2024 1528 -

By Matt Makai. 2021-2024.