Meilisearch January Updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. January 2025 edition.
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đŻđľ New Meilisearch Cloud region
Meilisearch Cloud is expanding! You can now deploy Meilisearch in Japan. Get faster, localized search today.
đ Upgrade to v1.12
Last month, we shipped v1.12 which brings 2x faster document insertion, 4x faster incremental updates, and 1.5x faster embedding generation. Update now!
đ° In the news
đŹ Building a RAG system with Meilisearch
Learn the best practices for building a retrieval-augmented generation system.
đ Semantic search with Mistral embeddings
Build semantic search with the latest Mistral Small 3 model from Anthropic.
⨠How personalization and recommendations enhance search and discovery
A case study of how Amazon, Reddit, Notion, and more build engaging search UX.
âď¸ How to add AI-powered search to a React app
Learn to build a React movie search and recommendation app with Meilisearch.
đ Building docs search with Docs Crawler
Integrate search in your documentation website using the documentation crawler.
đ¤ Made with Meilisearch
LibreChat is an open-source AI Conversation app compatible with all AI providers. Use a single, customizable UI to interact with any LLM models. LibreChat uses Meilisearch to search through conversation history.
Weâre always looking to promote new projects from the community. Post yours in the #built-with-meilisearch channel!
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Everything from Meilisearch Launch Week, in one place. Five days, every release, who it's for.
Conversational search, out of the box: Meilisearch Chat in Cloud UI
Meilisearch Cloud now ships a built-in chat UI. Select an index, get an auto-generated system prompt, guardrails, and an inspector tab to debug - no separate AI pipeline required.
Scale without limits: introducing sharding & replication in Meilisearch Cloud
Meilisearch Cloud now supports sharding and replication - letting your search infrastructure scale horizontally, stay available during updates, and serve users from the nearest node. Here is what that means and who it is for.