Free Lesson
The AI Search Frontier: What's new in 2026
75 min
Nov 2, 2026 12:00 PM
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What you'll learn
Major trends at the bleeding edge of AI Search
We'll survey some more exciting topics covered in Nov's AI-Powered Search: Modern Retrieval for Humans & Agents course.
SystemOne / Decision Models in Search
How Jev and successors (Laya, Clef, etc.) are integrating into search pipelines and improving agentic search.
BlitzRank: LLM as a Judge / Reranker with tournament graphs
Using LLMs as a Judge of search relevance works, but has blind spots. We'll discuss a methodthat optimizing for this.
Query Understanding + Wormhole Vectors + Knowledge Graphs
Introduction to these emerging techniques taught in the course by Trey Grainger for advanced query understanding.
Agentic Search + Modern RAG
An overview of Doug Turnbull's expert take on implementing Modern RAG and Agentic Search, as covered in the course.
Why this topic matters
Information Retrieval is evolving at an rapid pace. In our month-long "AI-Powered Search: Modern Retrieval for Humans & Agents" course, we work hard to cover both the tried-and-true AI Search fundamentals and bring additional experts as guest instructors on emerging / frontier topics. This session is a survey of the latter - emerging topics in AI Search that you should know about. Join us to hear the latest advancements this year in AI Search.
