IBM has partnered with Elasticsearch to enhance its watsonx Assistant with a new Conversational Search feature by integrating retrieval augmented generation (RAG) capabilities. This integration allows businesses to build conversational AI assistants that leverage their proprietary data, offering enriched chat experiences with business context. The collaboration also involves the use of IBM watsonx Discovery, which integrates with the Elasticsearch vector database to provide semantic, federated, and vector search across various data types and enterprise sources. This partnership enables developers to implement advanced search techniques, such as k-nearest neighbors (kNN) and approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) searches, using popular natural language processing models. Furthermore, Elasticsearch's optimizations have significantly improved efficiency, making it a valuable tool for AI-enabled applications.