why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Disclosure
Eifrem: Neo4j Vector Search Lags Dedicated Vector Databases
“Cause we also have vector search as part of Neo four J and it's not as good as the dedicated databases.”
Insight
Eifrem: Good Enough Vector Features in Existing Databases Suffice
“Between everyone else adding it as a feature there, like the good enough ends up being good enough for most situations.”
Insight
Eifrem: Graph App Developers Now Default to Generic Text-to-Cypher
“And then in the last three to six months, what has changed is that it used to be lead with the specialized functions, fall back to the generic. And now that has flipped. So now it's like, okay, just start with generic text to Cypher, right? And then when that …”
Insight
Eifrem: GraphRAG combines vector search with graph traversal
“It's not like graph or vector search. It's like vector search in combination with traversing the graph. That's the typical kind of pattern that we see.”
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Eifrem: Production AI agents require four distinct enterprise data sources
“So my view on it is that in my head, it completed the quadrant of the types of data sources that are required to reach what I've been talking about as kind of escape velocity for agents in production.
And so what I mean by that is I think it's exactly four ty…”
Insight
Eifrem: Context graphs capturing organizational decisions are vital for agentic automation
“And if generally we're in the kind of space right now of trying to shift decision-making from, you know, kind of human brains into agentics brains, right? It used to be from wetware to software. I don't even know what to call kind of the LLMs now, right? Into …”
Assertion Contradicted
Eifrem: Novo Nordisk graph deployment spans over 60 million documents
“Nowhere, nor this is one of the Like public case studies we have here over sixty million documents, you know, billions of notes and relationships use lots of kind of savvy NER and ER.”
Assertion Supported
Eifrem: Initial Model Context Protocol release includes in-memory graph database
“Actually the initial MCP release includes like a tiny little in memory graph database.”