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Van Luijt: OpenAI recommended Weaviate when deprecating its search endpoint

Bob van Luijt · Vector databases and the $8 trillion open source market | Bob van Luijt, CEO of Weaviate · Feb 15, 2024 · at 31:31

Bob van Luijt is the CEO and co-founder of vector database company Weaviate. He discusses early growth catalysts for the platform prior to the release of ChatGPT.

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“OpenAI had a they had a search endpoint that they deprecated. This is pre-ChatGBT, so, but they, so they deprecated that search endpoint, And say, well, you know, you just can buy our embeddings. There are three ways that you can index them and search for them. They said, one is Face from Facebook. The other one is Weaviate.”

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The claim, plainly

Prior to ChatGPT, when OpenAI deprecated its search endpoint, it recommended three options for indexing embeddings: Facebook's FAISS, Weaviate, and one other company.

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Assessment

The claim is partially true. Bob van Luijt accurately stated that OpenAI deprecated its search endpoint prior to the release of ChatGPT (announcing deprecation in June 2022 prior to ChatGPT's November 2022 launch) and that OpenAI's official transition materials recommended using vector search providers for indexing embeddings, explicitly highlighting Weaviate. However, OpenAI's official documentation and Search Transition Guide recommended dedicated vector search providers like Pinecone and Weaviate (and later Qdrant), rather than listing Facebook's FAISS as one of the officially recommended options.

OpenAI announced the deprecation of its /v1/search endpoint on June 3, 2022 (shutdown December 3, 2022), prior to ChatGPT's launch on November 30, 2022.
OpenAI's official Search Transition Guide recommended storing embeddings 'in your own database or in a vector search provider like Pinecone or Weaviate'.
Facebook's FAISS was widely used by the developer community but was not included in OpenAI's official primary documentation as a recommended provider alongside Weaviate and Pinecone.

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[1] openai.com [2] openai.com [3] huggingface.co [4] github.com [5] github.com [6] openai.com [7] github.com [8] ycombinator.com

site:github.com/openai/openai-cookbook "Weaviate" "6272952-search-transition-guide" "Answers, Classification, Search Endpoint Deprecation" OpenAI "transition guide" "search" site:openai.com OR site:platform.openai.com OR site:beta.openai.com "6272952" OR "search-transition-guide" "FAISS" OR "Weaviate" OR "Pinecone" OpenAI search endpoint deprecation recommended options FAISS Weaviate "Store those embeddings in your own database or in a vector search provider like"

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