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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Excited to connect w/ IR community at @ecir2026.eu in Delft this week! R&D on search, relevance & evaluation is the foundation any advanced AI deployment in knowledge-heavy domains. The future? Agentic search systems that plan, query, evaluate & iterate, built on proven IR fundamentals. #ecir2026

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

LLM Evals become the engine for self-improving systems that outperform hand-written prompts and multi-agent systems. @abcamara.com talks Friday at @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social's SEA on how Deep Research agents evolve without human intervention. www.meetup.com/sea-search-e...

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It takes local champions that act to build digital sovereignty. That’s why Zeta Alpha is teaming up with OEDIV, part of the Dr. Oetker Group, to deliver Sovereign AI and to securely connect companies’ internal knowledge with locally run AI models. 🧵 1/6 Reach out via lnkd.in/dktJM9W to learn more.

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Zeta Alpha launches custom AI agents built for knowledge-intensive enterprise teams. Easily create, share, schedule and manage your own AI agents that get real work done.

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This month’s Trends in AI webinar focused on something that's rapidly moving from hype to reality: AI for scientific discovery, especially in chemistry, pharma, and materials science. Read more about it here: www.zeta-alpha.com/post/trends-...

AI & Scientific Discovery - Trends in AI: November 2025

This month’s Trends in AI webinar focused on something that’s rapidly moving from hype to reality: AI for scientific discovery, especially in chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and materials science.

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Join us tomorrow at 5PM CET / 8AM PT, for a special episode of our Trends in AI show, with a focus on AI for scientific discovery in chemistry, life sciences, and pharma. Sign up: lu.ma/trends-in-ai...

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Trends in AI by Zeta Alpha - Chemistry & Scientific Discovery · Zoom · Luma

Join us for the Zeta Alpha Trends in AI webinar on Thursday, November 20th, at 8 AM PT / 5 PM CET. The event is in person in Amsterdam (LAB42, Science Park),…

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Good advice. Don’t select AI vendors based on capital raised, news headlines or Gigawatts of compute, but on ability to partner and to deliver.

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The most interesting takeaway from the keynote? 84% of IT leaders don’t track accuracy. How can you govern and improve something that you don’t measure.

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Also cool: Context Engineering, the fastest hype cycle rise from Andrej Karpathy tweet to Gartner CIO strategy advisory in less than 5 months. (With due credit for Tobi Lutke)

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Reporting for @zeta-alpha.bsky.social from Gartner Xpo Barcelona this week, and rest assured: it’s all about AI agents #GartnerSYM

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RAG in production is no longer "retrieve a few documents, paste into a prompt, and hope the answer is correct". The modern pattern is Agentic RAG: plan-execute loops, search across enterprise sources and the web, shared memory, tool use, and verification. ✍️ Read more: zeta-alpha.com/post/agentic...

Agentic RAG: From Overviews to Deep Research

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

For enterprises and organizations deploying AI apps in production, AI Safety is no longer optional. And by AI Safety we don't mean some abstract "AI risk", but the practical policies, controls, and engineering that keep systems secure, compliant, and trustworthy. 👉 www.zeta-alpha.com/post/enterpr...

Enterprise AI Safety, Without the Hype - Trends in AI: October 2025

For enterprises and organizations deploying AI applications in production, AI Safety is no longer optional. And by AI Safety we don't mean some abstract "AI risk", but the practical policies, controls...

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Enterprise AI Safety, Without the Hype - Trends in AI: October 2025

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Join us this Friday, October 10th at 8 AM PST / 5 PM CEST for a special episode of our “Trends in AI” show, with a focus on Enterprise AI Safety.

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

DeepMind just dropped the technical report behind their SOTA open-weights embedding model, packed with training details, including ablations on modeling choices like encoder-decoder initialization, mean pooling, and model souping. Let's take a look! 📚

Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Shipping a GenAI solution in production with a clear path to ROI is hard. In our latest post, we outline key challenges in Enterprise RAG, go beyond the basics with agents, and explore how automatic optimization can adapt these systems to domain-specific needs. www.zeta-alpha.com/post/why-gen...

Why GenAI Pilots Fail: Common Challenges with Enterprise RAG

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is powering the current wave of AI applications, from multimodal question answering and technical document summarization to streamlining knowledge-intensive work f...

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Join us for a special episode of our "Trends in AI" show on Friday, September 12th at 8 AM PST / 5 PM CEST, focused on Enterprise RAG. Secure your spot at: lu.ma/trends-in-ai...

Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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On 17 September, we talk at The AI Conference about Deep Research and Optimization of Advanced AI Agents. You can also meet us at expo booth 19 where we will be demoing and handing out stroopwafels. This means we have a discount code, so ping us for that. aiconference.com

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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

What's next? Fernando Rejon Barrera will be speaking together with Eric Pugh next week, about LLM-as-a-Judge and Human-in-the-Loop RAG evals, at the OpenSearch Project Conference in San Jose. events.linuxfoundation.org/opensearchco...

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OpenSearchCon North America | LF Events

Register now for OpenSearchCon North America, Sept 8-10, 2025 in San Jose, CA. Join the open source search community driving the future of search.

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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Great landing in San Francisco yesterday: fresh off the plane, I plugged in to the @zeta-alpha.bsky.social office on Mission and 3rd and hit the ground running. We are ready to roll in the Bay Area (see below).

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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

How to automatically evaluate and optimize multi-agent setups for deep research? Excited to share that this week @abcamara.com and I will be giving two talks in Amsterdam on one of our favorite R&D topics. - August 27th: @opensearch.org Meetup Amsterdam - August 29th: AI Dev Event Amsterdam #AIDev

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

AI agents are only as useful as the tools they can reliably access, and the latest release of our Agents SDK makes it easy to connect to MCP servers. We've prepared a quick guide where we bootstrap a minimal MCP-powered chat agent with just a few lines of code: www.zeta-alpha.com/post/build-m...

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Join us for the Zeta Alpha "Trends in AI" show on Friday, July 11th at 8 AM PST / 5 PM CEST live from LAB42 in Amsterdam, and online in San Francisco and around the globe. Register to receive your Zoom webinar invitation, or watch our live stream on YouTube and LinkedIn: lu.ma/trends-in-ai...

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have gained traction because of their ability to ground generated answers in knowledge sources, allowing for higher accuracy and reliability. However, challenges arise when it comes to evaluation, particularly in the absence of clear ground truth data.

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Catch us live today at 8 AM PST / 5 PM CEST for our monthly Trends in AI webinar - diving into AI evaluations, LLM benchmarking, relevance metrics for RAG, popular eval libraries, and the quirks of LLM-as-a-Judge for automated & continuous assessment of AI systems' performance. lu.ma/trends-in-ai...

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Join us for the Zeta Alpha "Trends in AI" webinar on Friday, May 9th at 8 AM PST / 5 PM CEST, live from LAB42 in Amsterdam, and online from San Francisco and around the globe. Register on Luma to receive your webinar invitation, or watch our live stream on YouTube & LinkedIn: lu.ma/trends-in-ai...

Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Are you attending #OpenSearchCon Europe 2025? Don't miss out on our two talks today! • RAG from Text & Images Using OpenSearch and Vision Language Models @ 14:55 - sched.co/1uxsf • How to Search 1 Billion Vectors in OpenSearch Without Losing Your Mind or Wallet @ 16:35 - sched.co/1uxsu

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

📢 Zeta Alpha is going to OpenSearchCon Europe 2025 📢 We are excited to be contributing back to the OpenSearch community, sharing insights from our work in Enterprise AI, Neural Search, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Learn more about our talks at the conference below: 🧵

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

In the latest episode of the Trends in AI webinar, we talked about the impact of AI in the industrial sector and how it's already transforming manufacturing and industrial automation. You can find a summary of the topics we covered on our blog: www.zeta-alpha.com/post/trends-...

AI in the Industry | Trends in AI: April '25

Zeta Alpha was proud to participate as an exhibitor this year at Hannover Messe, one of the world's largest industrial trade fairs, where we hosted the April edition of our Trends in AI webinar. Throu...

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Join us for our monthly Trends in AI webinar on Thursday, April 3rd, at 8 AM PST / 5 PM CEST! This edition comes live from Hannover Messe, the world's leading industrial tech trade fair, and online in Amsterdam, San Francisco, and everywhere else in the world. Sign up on Luma with the link below:

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Trends in AI: April 2025 - by Zeta Alpha · Zoom · Luma

Join us for the Zeta Alpha Trends in AI webinar on Thursday, April 3rd, at 8 AM PST / 5 PM CEST (time to be confirmed). This edition comes live from Hannover…

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The creators of Stella and Jasper continue their impressive work on embedding models, now releasing Dewey - a model designed for long-document retrieval tasks. Let's have a look at the key findings from their freshly published technical report: 📄

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

European AI startups power the acceleration of digital capabilities for the continent’s high tech industry, and Germany is in the lead. That's why Zeta Alpha is at #HANNOVERMESSE next week to showcase our latest AI product innovation. And do check out our talk with Festo.

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Google recently introduced Gemini Embedding, a multilingual text embedding model with remarkable performance. It currently tops the MTEB leaderboard across English, multilingual, and code retrieval tasks. Here's an overview of the key insights from their technical report: 👇

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Jakub Zavrel @jakubzavrel.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

One of the advantages of Europe is its wonderful high speed train system. So this morning I hopped on the Eurostar to Paris, where I am proud to represent @zeta-alpha.bsky.social at the Hello Tomorrow 2025 Global Summit on the AI side of the Dutch Deep Tech delegation.

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Agents are all the rage - and for good reason. While the concept of agents has been around for decades in traditional software engineering, recent AI breakthroughs have brought them back into the spotlight.

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

What distinguishes an agent from a RAG system? How are companies using them to solve problems that weren't possible just months ago? In our upcoming episode, we'll explore the practical side of agents, like frameworks, implementation details, and the challenges they're uniquely suited to address.

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Feeling overwhelmed by all the talk about reasoning models? We've summarized the key points from our latest Trends in AI episode, covering the history of reasoning in LLMs, DeepSeek-R1's innovations, and their impact on AI applications. Check it out!

Trends in AI - February '25: Reasoning Models

The world has been buzzing with the performance of DeepSeek R1, the first open-source reasoning model to compete with OpenAI's o1 series, and its implications for the dominance of Big Tech in the AGI…

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The whole world is buzzing with the performance of DeepSeek’s reasoning model, R1, and its implications for the dominance of Western tech companies in the AGI race. But what exactly are reasoning models? Did anyone see them coming? And how can they be used to create value?

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

What better way to start the year than by reflecting on the recent progress in AI and extrapolating the trends to predict where things are headed in 2025! In our latest Trends in AI episode, we shared our 10 predictions, which you'll find in this blog post - perfectly timed for a weekend deep dive.

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Great thread about DeepSeek-R1 causing panic in large industrial AI labs in the US. www.teamblind.com/post/Meta-ge...

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Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trends in AI - predictions for the year 2025: 1. Inference-time compute scaling will dominate AI progress. 2. Compute market for inference will significantly erode NVIDIA dominance. 3. Enterprise AI systems will be based on agentic RAG. 4. AI agents will have measurable impact on labor market.

Zeta Alpha @zeta-alpha.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Didn't make it to our first Trends in AI episode for the year, or are you simply looking for more trending papers? We’ve got you covered - check out our monthly newsletter for a recap of everything we discussed, and more!