Vespa Newsletter, December 2024

Vespa's December 2024 newsletter highlights several advancements and features, including a performance comparison between Vespa and Elasticsearch, where Vespa demonstrates superior efficiency in handling high query loads and updates at a lower cost. The newsletter also covers Vision Language Models (VLMs), which enable a range of tasks from visual question answering to video summarization, facilitated by Vespa's support for multivector ranking and binarization to enhance cost-effectiveness. Additionally, Vespa introduces a Secret Store for secure management of sensitive information within Vespa Cloud, and the release of Pyvespa 0.51, which brings improvements in notebooks and documentation. Vespa's updates also include automated deployment capabilities, enhanced metrics for disk space tracking, and JSON query support in the Vespa CLI. The newsletter invites readers to explore these innovations and participate in upcoming events to further engage with Vespa's AI-driven solutions.