Episode notes
This episode was recorded LIVE at the Berlin Buzzwords 2026
YouTube version: https://youtu.be/acOGVynTVpM
The cameraman is pure Zoom's AI ;)
The Course: "AI-Powered Search: Modern Retrieval for Humans & Agents"
aipoweredsearch.com/live-course?promoCode=vector-podcast
Discount Code for course (20% off): "vector-podcast"
AI-Powered Search (Book, Content, Community): https://aipoweredsearch.com/
Timecodes
00:00 Intro
00:30 Doug's and Trey's impression of the conference
01:16 How modern AI changed search (if any)
05:48 How to bring AI techniques into existing search engines on a budget
10:44 What the AI-Powered Search course includes
18:02 Staying hands-on
18:47 Guest's favourite topic that keeps them up at night
27:40 Message to the builders of search tech
32:55 Search continues to be challenging and exciting
Shownotes:
- Upcoming course in detail (grab promo code above to save 20%): https://aipoweredsearch.com/articles/the-frontier-of-ai-search-ai-powered-search-modern-retrieval-for-humans-agents/
- Doug's blog on search, agents, RAG, LLM as a judge and more: https://softwaredoug.com/
- AI-Powered Search: https://aipoweredsearch.com/
- Berlin Buzzwords:
- MICES: https://mices.co/
- Future of Search conference: https://berlinsearchweek.com/future-of-search/
- Women of Search: https://www.women-of-search.org/
- "AI is here - time to throw away our search engines?" panel hosted by Charlie Hull at Berlin Buzzwords 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StaPk0k-52Y
- Dmitry's prototype of Wormhole vectors idea with OpenSearch: https://aiven.io/blog/beyond-hybrid-search-traversing-vector-spaces-with-wormhole-vectors
- Dmitry's blog on Medium: https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/
- Dmitry's Tech Stories on Substack: https://substack.com/@dmitrykan
- Follow me on LinkedIn for Search updates: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitrykan/