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    Weaviate Podcast describes the company's early bet on AI

    The podcast says co-founders Bob van Luijt and Etienne Dilocker went a year without paying themselves and raised a $1.2 million seed round during COVID.

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    Weaviate Podcast describes episode #140 as a look back at seven years of the company with co-founders Bob van Luijt and Etienne Dilocker. Its account begins with van Luijt bringing a Node.js prototype and a pitch about unstructured data to Dilocker's workplace—and asking whether he knew the Go programming language. The podcast says they bet on natural language processing while still debating whether “AI” was too fringe a word for their website. After a year without paying themselves, they raised a $1.2 million seed round during COVID, according to the podcast, which says the product was already built when ChatGPT arrived.

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    @weaviatepodcastThe Weaviate origin story starts with a stranger in the wrong clothes. Bob van Luijt (@bobvanluijt) walked into the enterprise company where Etienne Dilocker (@etiennedi) was working carrying a Node.js prototype, a pitch about unstructured data, and a question about whether Etienne knew Go. 🤝 They bet on NLP back when they were still debating whether "AI" was too fringe a word to put on the website, adopted HNSW while it was a niche paper, went a year without paying themselves, and raised a $1.2M seed during COVID. When ChatGPT and the RAG hype hit, the product was already built and waiting. 🚀 Seven years of Weaviate 💚, from the origin to the evolution of Vector Databases to Context Engines, retold by its co-founders on Weaviate Podcast #140: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvv-vnT-LfQ

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    @weaviatepodcastThe Weaviate origin story starts with a stranger in the wrong clothes. Bob van Luijt (@bobvanluijt) walked into the enterprise company where Etienne Dilocker (@etiennedi) was working carrying a Node.js prototype, a pitch about unstructured data, and a question about whether Etienne knew Go. 🤝 They bet on NLP back when they were still debating whether "AI" was too fringe a word to put on the website, adopted HNSW while it was a niche paper, went a year without paying themselves, and raised a $1.2M seed during COVID. When ChatGPT and the RAG hype hit, the product was already built and waiting. 🚀 Seven years of Weaviate 💚, from the origin to the evolution of Vector Databases to Context Engines, retold by its co-founders on Weaviate Podcast #140: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvv-vnT-LfQ