​Welcome to the 8th edition of GenAI Cracow's community meetup. This time we will dive deeper into technology behind quantization and Azure AI Studio.

​Agenda

• ​How quantization techniques can improve your vector search? by Marcin

• ​Building with Azure AI Studio by Dominik

• ​Networking

​Abstract

​How quantization techniques can improve your vector search?
Have you ever wondered why some technologies have those complex names such as ColBERT, GLiNER or ColPali? What stands under those names? During this talk you will get answers to those questions and learn how those techniques can help your vector search. We will go through most interesting papers about quantization and present practical applications. So join us If you want to learn more about RoFormer, GLiNER, ColPali, late interaction and late chunking

​Building with Azure AI Studio
Do you know that Microsoft have a platform designed for developing generative AI copilots on Azure? Dominik will walk us through Azure AI Studio. We will cover from simple prompt and playground through more complex RAGs, multi-modal interfaces and hosting your private LLMs. In the end we will cover the built-in tools for evaluation and validation of your agentic systems. Let's see how much we can do with Azure!

​Speakers

​Marcin Antas
Hi, I'm Marcin, Core Engineer at Weaviate. I'm a pragmatic programmer with a passion for AI and ML algorithms. I'm always happy to learn new things and to pass the knowledge to others.
When not acting techie I'm working my way towards the Iron Man contest in Hawaii, training every day to qualify for that prestigious event.
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​Dominik Skowron
Microsoft Azure MVP, Head of Microsoft Technologies at Trek2Summit, Microsoft Community Leader, Innovation Enthusiast, AI no one ;)
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