Weaviate Ask Mode Adds Configurable Evaluation to Trade Latency vs Verifiability
CShorten30 · x · 2026-09-02
Weaviate's Ask Mode turns natural-language questions into searches or aggregations across cloud collections, then answers grounded in retrieved data. The update makes the answer-evaluation step configurable via resultevaluation (Python) or resultEvaluation (JS/TS):
- none: retrieve and answer directly — faster and cheaper, now the default
- llm: an extra model call evaluates the answer against retrieved context, keeps the sources actually used, and flags possible incompleteness
Developers can now explicitly trade latency and cost against answer verifiability.
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