Vespa Newsletter, August 2023

The Vespa Newsletter from August 2023 highlights recent updates and features in the Vespa AI platform, including the introduction of a multilingual sample app that leverages Vespa’s indexing language and embedding support for enhanced search relevance. The update also discusses improvements in approximate nearest neighbor queries with the targetHits feature, optimizations in the Vespa command-line client for easier deployment, and the release of new PyVespa versions that enhance interoperability with Vespa Cloud. Additional enhancements include the support for converting ISO-8601 date strings to epoch time, using onnxruntime 1.15.1, and optimizing query performance through selective group upgrades in high-query applications. The newsletter also mentions recent blog posts covering topics like BGE embedding models and accelerating transformer-based embedding retrieval, inviting users to try Vespa on Vespa Cloud or through the latest release.