Berlin Buzzwords 2025

Sonam Pankaj

Sonam is a GenerativeAI Evangelist. She is also the author of embedanything, which is an opensource ingestion, inference and indexing solution in rust with more than 200k+ downloads and 500+ stars in past 9 months. She has previously worked in generative AI and conversational AI. She is also building StarlightSearch, a local and on-premise solution for search and agents in rust.


Company/Organisation

Articul8

Twitter

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LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonam-pankaj/


Session

06-17
16:00
20min
Text Search on Images with Quantized ColPali
Sonam Pankaj

ColPali is revolutionary—here’s why: it combines document retrieval with a vision-based large language model, allowing you to search directly within images without needing to extract text. However, running the full model on personal hardware can be challenging due to its computational demands. And thus we’ve released a quantized version of ColPali.

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