Tag: semantic search
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MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model
Update, October 2026: Since Laravel 13.28 (August 2026), vector columns, vector indexes, the AsVector cast and vector similarity queries on MariaDB are built into Laravel itself, with no package needed. See Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively. Erik’s package remains an option for Laravel 12, and his findings on choosing an embedding model apply whichever you use.
laravel-mariadb-vector is an open-source project by Erik Ros, bringing MariaDB’s native vector search to Laravel’s Eloquent ORM. In his guest post, Erik shares how it works, and […]
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Youtube Semantic Search is the winner of MariaDB AI RAG Hackathon innovation track
Last week we announced the winners of the MariaDB AI RAG hackathon that we organized together with the Helsinki Python meetup group. Now is time to go for a deep dive into the innovation track winner. Dymtro Abramov put together an end to end RAG application for making technical meetup videos searchable with semantic relevance (based on their caption texts). We were impressed by the idea and the implementation that is definitely beyond just a proof of concept for AI […]