AIM Weekly 17 June 2024

Tim Spann
5 min readJun 17, 2024

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17-June-2024

Tim Spann @PaaSDev

Milvus — Towhee — Attu — Feder — GPTCache — VectorDB Bench

Happy Father’s Day To All! Also Happy Flag Day to Those in the United States.

AIM Weekly

Towhee — Attu — Milvus (Tim-Tam)

FLaNK — FLiPN

With a name like that I am not sure how I don’t add that to my group.

SPANN: Highly-efficient Billion-scale Approximate Nearest Neighborhood Search https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/299dc35e747eb77177d9cea10a802da2-Abstract.html

Congrats to Milvus https://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/DBTA-100-2024-The-Companies-That-Matter-Most-in-Data-164289.aspx

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CODE + COMMUNITY

Please join my meetup group NJ/NYC/Philly/Virtual.

This is Issue #142

New Releases

Milvus Release 2.4.4

Release date: May 31, 2024

It includes a critical bug fix, so if you use bulk insert definitely upgrade now. Also some compilation updates for other platforms.

Hardware

Upcoming

Summary of the Last Awesome Meetup https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7202803256891248640/

Cool Stuff

TIMM (Pytorch Image Models) https://timm.fast.ai/

Ben has gone deep on this article on the Future of Vector Search linking to some of Milvus & Zilliz’ scalability and horizontal scalability deep description and highlighting a lot of interesting things going on.

See: https://zilliz.com/learn/scaling-vector-databases-to-meet-enterprise-demands?utm_source=tim

Articles

There’s a lot of cool stuff with Milvus and new models, techniques, libraries and use cases.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-monopoly/

https://python.plainenglish.io/claude-3-the-king-of-data-extraction-f06ad161aabf

https://towardsdatascience.com/rag-vs-finetuning-which-is-the-best-tool-to-boost-your-llm-application-94654b1eaba7

https://medium.com/@zilliz_learn/using-vector-search-to-better-understand-computer-vision-data-08e137df9c6c

https://zilliz.com/blog/exploring-multimodal-embeddings-with-fiftyone-and-milvus

https://medium.com/aiguys/yolov9-new-object-detection-king-6fc97b93dc9a

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nifi-retrieval-augmented-generation-chris-gambino-gfsec/?trackingId=OliHLynzQEKic3SgAznO5w%3D%3D

https://ml.dssconf.pl/

https://medium.com/@zilliz_learn/milvus-reference-architectures-e30a27c9f3c2

https://docs.openlit.io/latest/integrations/milvus

https://builtin.com/articles/real-time-data-ai

https://medium.com/@zilliz_learn/image-embeddings-for-enhanced-image-search-an-in-depth-explainer-6831859bedf0

https://medium.com/@zilliz_learn/semantic-search-with-milvus-and-openai-32573de80307

https://medium.com/@zilliz_learn/how-to-detect-and-correct-logical-fallacies-from-genai-models-3e4a9852d2ef

https://gradientflow.substack.com/p/the-future-of-vector-search

https://medium.com/vector-database/introducing-pymilvus-integration-with-embedding-models-a82f10d516ea

https://medium.com/@zilliz_learn/local-agentic-rag-with-langgraph-and-llama-3-6c962979821f

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-4-synthetic-data-generation-llm-training/?utm_source=tim

https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/reliably-processing-trillions-of-kafka-messages-per-day-23494f553ef9

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2024/6/10/a-cost-analysis-of-replication-vs-s3-express-one-zone-in-transactional-data-systems?utm_source=tim

DSPy — Getting interesting https://medium.com/@sandyeep70/the-decline-of-traditional-prompt-engineering-and-the-rise-of-dspy-b27b9a5adc45

Why How + Milvus Lite https://medium.com/enterprise-rag/kickstart-your-genai-applications-with-milvus-lite-and-whyhow-ais-open-source-rule-based-retrieval-70873c7576f1

Voyage AI Embeddings and Rerankers for Search and RAG

Evaluate RAG Apps

Videos

Using JSON Fields with Milvus

Street Cams + Milvus

Conf42: ML: Emerging GenAI

Generative AI with Milvus

SF Unstructured Meetup — 03 June 2024

Fueling AI with Airbyte

Milvus Webinar

AI Generated Videos

Slides

Events

June 18, 2024: Princeton Meetup

June 20, 2024: AI Camp Meetup. NYC.

Nov 5–7, 10–12, 2024: CloudX. Online/Santa Clara.

https://www.developerweek.com/cloudx/

Nov 19, 2024: XtremePython. Online.

Code

Models

Tools

Cool

Let’s do the Time Sync Again

© 2020–2024 Tim Spann https://www.youtube.com/@FLaNK-Stack

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Tim Spann

Principal Developer Advocate, Zilliz. Milvus, Attu, Towhee, GenAI, Big Data, IoT, Deep Learning, Streaming, Machine Learning. https://www.datainmotion.dev/