MongoDB AI Course in Partnership with Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI

MongoDB is committed to empowering developers and meeting them where they are. With a thriving community of 7 million developers across 117 regions, MongoDB has become a cornerstone in the world of database technology.

Building on this foundation, we're excited to announce our collaboration with AI pioneer Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI, a leading educational technology company specializing in AI and machine learning. Together, we've created an informative course that bridges the gap between database technology and modern AI applications, further enhancing our mission to support developers in their journey to build innovative solutions.

Introducing "Prompt Compression and Query Optimization"

MongoDB’s latest course on DeepLearning.AI, Prompt Compression and Query Optimization, covers the prominent form factor of modern AI applications today: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This course showcases how MongoDB Atlas Vector Search capabilities enable developers to build sophisticated AI applications, leveraging MongoDB as an operational and vector database.

To ensure that learners taking this course are not just introduced to vector search, the course presents an approach to reducing the operational cost of running AI applications in production by a technique known as prompt compression.

“RAG, or retrieval augmented generation, has moved from being an interesting new idea a few months ago to becoming a mainstream large-scale application.” — Andrew Ng, DeepLearning.AI

Key course highlights

  1. RAG Applications: Learn to build and optimize the most prominent form of AI applications using MongoDB Atlas and the MongoDB Query Language(MQL).

  2. MongoDB Atlas Vector Search: Leverage the power of vector search for efficient information retrieval.

  3. MongoDB Document Model: Explore MongoDB's flexible, JSON-like document model, which represents complex data structures and is ideal for storing and querying diverse AI-related data.

  4. Prompt Compression: Use techniques to reduce the operational costs of AI applications in production environments.

In this course, you'll learn techniques to enhance your RAG applications' efficiency, search relevance, and cost-effectiveness. As AI applications become more sophisticated, efficient data retrieval and processing becomes crucial. This course bridges the gap between traditional database operations and modern vector search capabilities, enabling you to confidently build robust, scalable AI applications that can handle real-world challenges.

MongoDB's document model: The perfect fit for AI

A key aspect of this course is that it introduces learners to MongoDB's document model and its numerous benefits for AI applications:

  • Python-Compatible Structure: MongoDB's BSON format aligns seamlessly with Python dictionaries, enabling effortless data representation and manipulation.

  • Schema Flexibility: Adapt to varied data structures without predefined schemas, matching the dynamic nature of AI applications.

  • Nested Data Structures: Easily represent complex, hierarchical data often found in AI models and datasets.

  • Efficient Data Ingestion: Directly ingest data without complex transformations, speeding up the data preparation process.

Leveraging the combined insights from MongoDB and DeepLearning.AI, this course offers a perfect blend of practical database knowledge and advanced AI concepts.

Who should enroll?

This course is ideal for developers who:

  • Are familiar with vector search concepts

  • Building RAG applications and Agentic Systems

  • Have a basic understanding of Python and MongoDB and are curious about AI

  • Want to optimize their RAG applications for better performance and cost-efficiency

This course offers an opportunity to grasp techniques in AI application development. You'll gain the skills to build more efficient, powerful, cost-effective RAG applications, from advanced query optimization to innovative prompt compression.

With hands-on code, detailed walkthroughs, and real-world applications, you'll be equipped to tackle complex AI challenges using MongoDB's robust features. Take advantage of this chance to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving field of AI. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting your AI journey, this course will provide invaluable insights and practical skills to enhance your capabilities.

Improve your AI application development skills with MongoDB's practical course. Learn to build efficient RAG applications using vector search and prompt compression. Enroll now and enhance your developer toolkit.

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Building Gen AI with MongoDB & AI Partners | July 2024

My colleague Richmond Alake recently published an article about the evolution of the AI stack that breaks down the “comprehensive collection of integrated tools, solutions, and components designed to streamline the development and management of AI applications.” It’s a good read, and Richmond—who’s an AI/ML expert and developer advocate—explains clearly how the modern AI stack evolved from a set of disparate tools to the (beautifully) interdependent ecosystem on which AI development relies today. “The modern AI stack represents an evolution from the fragmented tooling landscape of traditional machine learning to a more cohesive and specialized ecosystem optimized for the era of LLMs and gen AI,” Richmond writes. In other words, this cohesive ecosystem is aimed at ensuring end-to-end interoperability and seamless developer experiences, both of which are of utmost importance when it comes to AI innovation (and software innovation overall). Empowering developer innovation is exactly what MongoDB is all about—from streamlining how developers build modern applications, to the blog post you’re reading now, to the news that the MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP) is now generally available. In particular, the MAAP ecosystem represents leaders from every part of the AI stack who will provide customer service and support, and who will work with them to ensure smooth integrations—with the ultimate aim of helping them build gen AI applications with confidence. As the saying goes, it takes a village. Welcoming new AI partners Because the AI ecosystem is constantly evolving, we're always working to ensure that customers can seamlessly integrate with the latest cohort of industry-leading companies. In July we welcomed nine new AI partners that offer product integrations with MongoDB. Read on to learn more about each great new partner! Enkrypt AI Enkrypt AI secures enterprises against generative AI risks with its comprehensive security platform that detects threats, removes vulnerabilities, and monitors performance for continuous insights. The solution enables organizations to accelerate AI adoption while managing risk and minimizing brand damage. Sahil Agarwal, CEO of Enkrypt AI said, “We are thrilled to announce our strategic partnership with MongoDB, to help companies secure their RAG workflows for faster production deployment. Together, Enkrypt AI and MongoDB are dedicated to delivering unparalleled safety and performance, ensuring that companies can leverage AI technologies with confidence and improved trust.” FriendliAI FriendliAI’s mission is to empower organizations to harness the full potential of their generative AI models with ease and cost efficiency. By eliminating the complexities of generative AI serving, FriendliAI aims to empower more companies to achieve innovation with generative AI. “We’re excited to partner with MongoDB to empower companies in testing and optimizing their RAG features for faster production deployment,” said Byung-Gon Chon, CEO and co-founder of FriendliAI. “MongoDB simplifies the launch of a scalable vector database with operational data. Our collaboration streamlines the entire RAG development lifecycle, accelerating time to market and enabling companies to deliver real value to their customers more swiftly.” HoneyHive HoneyHive helps organizations continuously debug, evaluate, and monitor AI applications, and ship new AI features faster and with confidence. "We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with MongoDB, which addresses a critical challenge in GenAI deployment—the gap between prototyping and production-ready RAG systems,” said Mohak Sharma, CEO of HoneyHive. “By integrating HoneyHive's evaluation and monitoring capabilities with MongoDB's robust vector database, we're enabling developers to build, test, and deploy RAG applications with greater confidence. This collaboration provides the necessary tools for continuous quality assurance, from development through to production. For companies aiming to leverage gen AI responsibly and at scale, our combined solution offers a pragmatic path to faster, more reliable deployment." Iguazio The Iguazio AI platform operationalizes and de-risks ML & gen AI applications at scale so organizations can implement AI effectively and responsibly in live business environments. “We're delighted to expand our partnership with MongoDB into the gen AI domain, jointly helping enterprises build, deploy and manage gen AI applications in live business environments with our gen AI Factory,” said Asaf Somekh, co-founder and CEO of Iguazio (acquired by McKinsey). “Together, we mitigate the challenges of scaling gen AI and minimizing risk with built-in guardrails. Our seamlessly integrated technologies enable enterprises to realize the potential of gen AI and turn their AI strategy into real business impact." Netlify Netlify is the essential platform for the delivery of exceptional and dynamic web experiences, without limitations. The Netlify Composable Web Platform simplifies content orchestration, streamlines and unifies developer workflow, and enables website speed and agility for enterprise teams. "Netlify is excited to join forces with MongoDB to help companies test and optimize their RAG features for faster production deployment,” said Dana Lawson, Chief Technical Officer at Netlify. “MongoDB has made it easy to launch a scalable vector database with operational data, while Netlify enhances the deployment process and speed to production. Our collaboration streamlines the development lifecycle of RAG applications, decreasing time to market and helping companies deliver real value to customers faster." Render Render helps software teams ship products fast and at any scale. The company hosts applications for customers that range from solopreneurs, small agencies, and early stage startups, to mature, scaling businesses with services deployed around the world, all with a relentless commitment to reliability and uptime. Jess Lin, Developer Advocate at Render, said, “We’re thrilled to join forces with MongoDB to help companies effortlessly deploy and scale their applications—from their first user to their billionth. Render and MongoDB Atlas both empower engineers to focus on developing their products, not their infrastructure. Together, we're streamlining how engineers build full-stack apps, which notably include new AI applications that use RAG.” Superlinked Superlinked is a compute framework that helps MongoDB Atlas Vector Search work at the level of documents, rather than individual properties, enabling MongoDB customers to build high-quality RAG, Search, and Recommender systems with ease. “We're thrilled to join forces with MongoDB to help companies build vector search solutions for complex datasets,” said Daniel Svonava, CEO of Superlinked. “MongoDB makes it simple to manage operational data and a scalable vector index in one place. Our collaboration brings the operational data into the vector embeddings themselves, making the joint system able to answer multi-faceted queries like “largest clients with exposure to manufacturing risk” and operate the full vector search development cycle, speeding up time to market and helping companies get real value to customers faster." Twelve Labs Twelve Labs builds AI that perceives the world the way humans do. The company models the world by shipping next-generation multimodal foundation models that push the boundaries in video understanding. "We are excited to partner with MongoDB to enable developers and enterprises to build advanced multimodal video understanding applications,” said Jae Lee, CEO of Twelve Labs. “Developers can store Twelve Labs' state-of-the-art video embeddings in MongoDB Atlas Vector Search for efficient semantic video retrieval—which enables video recommendations, data curation, RAG workflows, and more. Our collaboration supports native video processing and ensures high-performance & low latency for large-scale video datasets." Upstage Upstage specializes in delivering above-human-grade performance AI solutions for enterprises, focusing on superior usability, customizability, and data privacy. “We are thrilled to partner with MongoDB to provide our enterprise customers with a powerful full-stack LLM solution featuring RAG capabilities,” said Sung Kim, CEO and co-founder of Upstage. “By combining Upstage AI's Document AI, Solar LLM, and embedding models with the robust vector database MongoDB Atlas, developers can create a powerful end-to-end RAG application that's grounded with the enterprise's unstructured data. This application achieves a fast time to value with productivity gains while minimizing the risk of hallucination.” But wait, there's more! To learn more about building AI-powered apps with MongoDB, check out our AI Resources Hub , and stop by our Partner Ecosystem Catalog to read about our integrations with MongoDB’s ever-evolving AI partner ecosystem. Head over to our quick-start guide to get started with Atlas Vector Search today.

August 7, 2024
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Hanabi Technologies Uses MongoDB to Power AI Assistant, Hana

For all the hype surrounding generative AI, cynics tend to view the few real-world implementations as little more than “fancy chatbots.” But for Abhinav Aggarwal, CEO of Hanabi Technologies, the idea of a generative AI-powered bot that is more than just an assistant was intriguing. “I’d been using ChatGPT since it launched,” said Aggarwal. “That got me thinking: How could we make a chatbot that was like a team member?” And with that concept, Hana was born. The problem with bots “Most generative AI chatbots do not act like people; they wait for a command and give a response,” said Aggarwal. “We wanted to create a human-like chatbot that would proactively help people based on what they wanted—automating reminders, for example, or fetching time zones from your calendar to correctly schedule meetings.” Hanabi’s flagship product, Hana, is an AI assistant designed to enhance team collaboration within Google Chat, working in concert with Google Workspace and its suite of products. “Our target customers are smaller companies of between 10 and 50 people. At this size you’re not going to build your own agent from scratch,” he said. Hana integrates with Google APIs to deliver a human-like assistant that chimes in with helpful interventions, such as automatically setting reminders and making sure meetings are booked in the right time zone for each participant. “Hana is designed to bring AI to smaller companies and help them collaborate in a space where they are already working—Google Workspace,” Aggarwal explained. The MongoDB Atlas solution For Hana to act like a member of the team, Hanabi needed to process massive amounts of data to support advanced features like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for better information retrieval across Google Docs and many other sources. And with a rapidly growing user base of over 600 organizations and 17,000+ installs, Hanabi also required a secure, scalable, and high-performing data storage solution. MongoDB Atlas provided a flexible document model, built-in vector database, and scalable cloud-based infrastructure, freeing Hanabi engineers to build new features for Hana rather than focusing on rote tasks like data extract, transform, and load processes or manual scaling and provisioning. Now, MongoDB Atlas handles a variety of responsibilities: Scalability and security: MongoDB Atlas’s auto-scaling and automatic backup features have enabled Hanabi to seamlessly grow its user base without the need for manual database management. RAG: MongoDB Atlas plays a critical role in Hana’s RAG functionality. The platform enables Hanabi to split Google Docs into small sections, create embeddings, and store these sections in Atlas’s vector database. Development Processes: According to Aggarwal, MongoDB’s flexibility in managing changing schemas has been essential to the company’s fast-paced development cycle. Data Visualization: Using MongoDB Atlas Charts has enabled Hanabi to create comprehensive dashboards for real-time data visualization. This has helped the team track usage, set reminders, and optimize performance without needing to build a manual dashboard. Impact and results With MongoDB Atlas, Hanabi can successfully scale Hana to meet the demands of its rapidly expanding user base. The integration is also enabling Hana to offer powerful features like automatic interactions with customers, advanced information retrieval from Google Docs, and manually added memory snippets, making it an essential tool for teams around the world. Next steps Hanabi plans to continue integrating more tools into Hana while expanding its reach to personal Gmail users. The company is also rolling out a new automatic-interaction feature, further enhancing Hana’s ability to proactively assist users without direct commands. MongoDB Atlas remains a key component of Hanabi’s stack, alongside Google Kubernetes Engine, NestJS, and LangChain, enabling Hanabi to focus on innovating to improve the customer experience. Tech Stack MongoDB Atlas Google Kubernetes Engine NestJS LangChain Are you building AI apps? Join the MongoDB AI Innovators Program today! Successful participants gain access to free MongoDB Atlas credits, technical enablement, and invaluable connections within the broader AI ecosystem. If your company is interested in being featured, we’d love to hear from you. Connect with us at ai_adopters@mongodb.com.

November 21, 2024