Vespa Newsletter, October 2023

The October 2023 Vespa Newsletter highlights significant updates and improvements in Vespa.ai, including the launch of an enhanced search UI with AI-generated suggestions and paragraph indexing, as well as the integration of Lucene Linguistics, which supports 40 languages. Vespa.ai has become an independent company, aiming to deliver features more rapidly and provide cost-effective, high-quality solutions on Vespa Cloud, which now offers Vespa Cloud Enclave for enhanced data control. Notable performance advancements include optimizations in fuzzy matching using Deterministic Finite Automata, resulting in substantial speed improvements, and the introduction of automated reindexing for BM25 ranking. Other updates include cluster-specific model-serving settings, enhanced deployment status tracking in the Vespa CLI, and performance improvements in handling small allocations for paged attributes. Additionally, Vespa's use of ONNXRuntime for model inference now supports bfloat16 and float16 datatypes. The newsletter invites users to try Vespa's capabilities by deploying applications for free on Vespa Cloud.