THIS WEEK IN JINA AI

Jina 3.3 drops, DocArray Dataclasses and more

Not to mention our upcoming office hours, tattoo search, CLIP-as-service examples, and more…

New Releases

DocArray 0.12

This new release introducesdataclass support on multimodal data. Read up its design, usage, and examples with CLIP

CLIP-as-service

CLIP-as-service now has an example server for you to generate CLIP embeddings on the cloud. Simply pip install clip_client and then

from clip_client import Client
c = Client('grpc://demo-cas.jina.ai:51000')
c.encode(your-data-to-embed)

Test it in your browser here

Jina 3.3

This release comes with a lot of improvements, some of which involve breaking changes. You can install it with:pip install -U jina

New features:

• Removed Head Pod when deploying non-sharded Executors
• Introduced shared Executors
• Improved support for workspace in Executors
• Added volumes to Docker Compose YAML
• Added support for compression in GRPC communication
• Added TLS support for communication between client and Gateway

Breaking changes:

• In order to allow Load Balancing between the Executor replicas, a Service Mesh needs to be installed in the cluster

Read the full changelog here.

Community Showcase

Kevin Zehnder shared his project in the Jina AI slack community and we absolutely loved it. Kevin used Jina to build a text-to-image and image-to-image Neural Search for Tattoos.

Screenshot of Jina app which allows you to search a collection of tattoo images by text or image.

Check out the code on GitHub and don’t forget to star it ⭐

Upcoming Events

Office Hours

If you have technical issues with Jina, we would love to discuss them all during our Office Hours on Thursday April 28 at 19:00 CET! (convert to your timezone)

Follow all our events on Meetup

Blog

Jina AI + Qdrant → Data Storage on the fly!

Recent Events

Jina NOW at FOSSASIA

Our Solutions Lead, Florian Hönicke, presented at the FOSSASIA SUMMIT 2022! He explained how to use the open-source Jina NOW for various visual search cases such as — image NFTs, re-id, X-ray, photo apps, and customer data.

Skip to 7h 30m to watch Florian talk about Jina NOW

Engineering All Hands

Just like every second Tuesday of the month, we had our Engineering All Hands!

Connor Shorten joined us this time. He is the founder of Henry AI Labs and research scientist at SeMI Technologies. He discussed the crucial need for robustness in Deep Learning and how vector search can help you achieve it!

Jina AI Engineering All Hands for April 2022

Office Hours

Community members who had technical issues came to discuss them during our recent Office Hours.

Recording of Jina AI Office Hours conducted on Mar 31, 2022

Contribute to our Good First Issues Repo

Our good first issues repo features some great issues for those looking to take their first steps into open source with Jina. Check them out here:

• Example: NFT/blockchain search engine
• Update Jina Hub Executors for Jina 3.0+
• React component for Jina

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