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BTW if you come to Ben's talk you get auto-enrolled into the entire RAG course. Recording, notes, slides etc. sent to everyone who signs up. maven.com/p/569540/i-don… The 🐐's Ben Clavié Nandan Thakur Antoine Chaffin Orion Weller Bryan Bischof fka Dr. Donut

this has been a long overdue because of other commitments will pick it up again and try to complete the blog on moderBERT soon

We have 2k+ students signed up for our free mini course on RAG optimization and evaluation We’ll be sending detailed notes, recordings and more to everyone who signs up (sign ups will get links for the entire series as it happens over next 3 weeks) maven.com/p/569540/i-don…

Don't miss this, it has everything: me giving a cheeky overview of why RAG will never die Nandan Thakur about evals for the modern age Orion Weller showing off reasoning + retrieval Antoine Chaffin on why late-interaction rules Bryan Bischof fka Dr. Donut remixing the classics to make modern search

All ya'll have to do is signup for the first one, and I'll run a script tonight that enrolls you for the 5 part series. Sign up here: maven.com/p/569540/i-don… Notes, slides, recordings, and other goodies sent to those who sign up

I'm assembling a team

Last chance to sign up! Unlike Ben, I am fortunately at the beach right now, but I am excited to see y’all and discuss the future of IR! ✨

Keep the encoders coming 🎉

The more encoders, the merrier Let’s turn big causal on its head!!

now is the best time to work on search and retrieval

Multi-vector search is getting commoditized

Small Encoders Can Rival Large Decoders in Detecting Groundedness Shows that lightweight encoder models like RoBERTa can match state-of-the-art LLMs in groundedness detection while reducing inference costs by up to 1000x. 📝arxiv.org/abs/2506.21288 👨🏽‍💻github.com/chandarlab/Hal…

My friends were using ChatGPT during the vacations and I noticed they have a lot of slop (including emojis) It is odd because it feels like unlogged YouTube and maybe explain the Llama 4 results on LMArena