Free Future of AI Search conference: late interaction, MUVERA benchmarks and agentic search
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-15
Doug Turnbull (ex-Shopify/Reddit/Wikipedia search lead) and Trey Grainger (author of AI-Powered Search) are hosting a free virtual conference, Future of AI Search, on Maven (Oct 19 – Nov 2, 2026, Zoom). Highlights:
- Late interaction in 2026: Amélie Chatelain (LightOn) on why late interaction beats single-vector retrieval on relevance and what it takes in production, plus implications for search agents.
- Scaling late interaction in OpenSearch with MUVERA: ColBERT/ColPali-style models store hundreds of vectors per doc (up to 25x memory); AWS/OpenSearch ambassador Praveen Mohan Prasad shares reproducible benchmarks on which optimizations pay off.
- Other topics: BM25 for agentic search, Wormhole vectors for hybrid retrieval, and System One / Decision Models outperforming LLMs on agentic search tasks.
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