AI-Powered Search

Kicking off in 90 minutes, come hang to: -> Figure out the right time to switch from managed APIs to self-hosting -> Get an overview of good OSS models for search, KGs, doc processing -> Get actionable plan for running these models in prod on the cheap $ Link in comments: 👇

Tomorrow one of the most popular speakers Trey and I have on Maven is coming back Deploying small language models to help with search relevance https://lnkd.in/e8zqz2Cp

A spontaneous free search mini conferences has just sort of happened - hosted by me and Trey Grainger Starts 2PM, keeps going in the week ahead, but signup at any time https://lnkd.in/e3RmVhdS

Our next three AI-Powered Search Lightning Lessons (2/26, 2/27, 3/2) cover 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 100 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘷𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦 (Nathan VanBenschoten, turbopuffer), 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘴 (Daniel Svonava, Superlinked, Inc.), and the importance of 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 (Doug Turnbull). You can sign up for each individually, or sign up for them as part of the "𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡" Series (which also includes 3 other amazing sessions next week). The upcoming week is going to be epic! Sign up so you don't miss out on the opportunity to learn live from these luminaries in search & information retrieval. 🔗 Sign up links in the comments.

Doug Turnbull and I are truly blessed: our 𝐀𝐈-𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡: 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 & 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 course has now become the the #2 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 in Engineering on Maven! 🙌 . Thanks to everyone who continues to sign up to 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 this 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 and 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 🙏 Class 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬, so be sure to enroll now before time runs out (and before the linked discount disappears on Friday)! If you'd like to massively level up your 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 skills (𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰), spending the month of March hands-on with us is the best investment you'll find to do that. Instructors: Doug Turnbull, Trey Grainger (Searchkernel), Daniel Wrigley (OpenSource Connections), Connor Shorten (Weaviate), Radu Gheorghe (Vespa.ai), Daniel Tunkelang If you'd like a sneak peek, sign up for our Free 6-day Series this week on "𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡" (starts 2/26), including sessions with Nathan VanBenschoten (turbopuffer), Daniel Svonava (Superlinked, Inc.), and Andreas Wagner (searchHub.io | Autopilot for your site search!), along with Doug and I. 🔗 Details and sign up links are in the comments.

Looking forward to joining "the other side" of the AI-Powered Search course as a guest speaker after I took part as a student in the last cohort. I'm very grateful and feel honored to be included in this list of guest speakers. The course is packed with great stuff and I thoroughly enjoyed taking it, so I can definitely recommend this to anyone who's looking for opportunities to learn about AI-powered search techniques going well beyond the book. My guest lecture will be about a systematic framework for relevance tuning based on user behavior data. We'll look at what implicit user feedback incorporates and how it can be used to measure relevance at scale for continuous search result quality optimization. We will walk through the full lifecycle of relevance engineering, from capturing the first click to automating the tuning process using the latest in Agentic AI. It's going to be a fun ride, so don't miss this opportunity! #search #aipoweredsearch #informationretrieval #agenticai

It's hard to emphasize how much you're going to learn in this session - every conversation I've ever had with Daniel Svonava has been a gold mine. Daniel Svonava led on the the most engaging and thought-provoking sessions in the last cohort of our AI-Powered Search course, and I'm excited to be hosting him again this 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 2/27 (11𝐚𝐦 𝐄𝐒𝐓) for this Free Lightning Lesson (public this time!) so that everyone can participate. Come learn from Daniel, along with Doug Turnbull and I, about how to optimize your inference for search and data processing using self-hosted "𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬" (including fine-tuned versions) and why you can get better, faster, and cheaper results by doing so!

On Friday, you're invited to a special Lightning Lesson on "𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 & 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐋𝐌𝐬" taught by Daniel Svonava (Founder & CEO of Superlinked) and hosted by Trey Grainger and Doug Turnbull. Superlinked, Inc. has been running large-scale model inference for AI Search years, and Daniel will share a preview of their upcoming open source inference engine for self-hosting SLMs (Small Language Models) in your own cloud. We'll will cover (and take your questions about): ► 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 & 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 See what tasks are ideal for switching from LLMs to SLMs with the same or better quality. ► 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 Lessons from wrapping SGLang, vLLM, TensorRT and why we chose to rewrite most of the OSS model code. ► 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 100𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 How to support 35+ model architectures without going crazy and how to run LoRAs in production. ► 1 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐒𝐒 𝐊8𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 Design an auto-scaled multi-model multi-modal cluster to drive all GenAI projects in your business. This lightning lesson is a part of our Free "𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡" Series running 2/26 - 3/6. 🔗 Sign up links for this session or the entire Series in the comments. Please join us!

Excited to hear that Doug Turnbull and my AI-Powered Search course just hit the #3 trending course in Engineering on Maven! 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬 for this month-long cohort-based course with hands-on labs, expert guest speakers like Daniel Tunkelang, Radu Gheorghe (Vespa.ai), Daniel Wrigley (OpenSource Connections), and Connor Shorten (Weaviate). If you'd like a sneak peek, sign up for our Free 6-day Series this week on "𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡" (starts 2/26), including sessions with Nathan VanBenschoten (turbopuffer), Daniel Svonava (Superlinked, Inc.), and Andreas Wagner (searchHub.io | Autopilot for your site search!), along with Doug and I. 🔗 Signup Links and details in the comments.

If you think great search is just about picking the right embeddings or static algorithms like BM25 and vector search, think again. 😉 Join our search expert Andreas Wagner from searchHub.io | Autopilot for your site search! and Trey Grainger together with Doug Turnbull for a candid discussion on why static retrieval eventually hits a wall, and how to build dynamic search engines using continuous feedback loops. Learn the real strategies that actually move the needle on search quality! 🗓️ Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2026 | 5:00 PM UTC 📍 Format: Virtual (Zoom) & 100% Free 👉 Save your spot here: https://lnkd.in/dsAAd5-c