Berlin Buzzwords 2026 - Trey Grainger & Doug Turnbull, Role of Search in modern AI and new course

This episode was recorded LIVE at the Berlin Buzzwords 2026YouTube version: https://youtu.be/acOGVynTVpMThe cameraman is pure Zoom's AI ;)The Course: "AI-Powered Search: Modern Retrieval for Humans & Agents"aipoweredsearch.com/live-course?promoCode=vector-podcastDiscount Code for course (20% off): "vector-podcast"AI-Powered Search (Book, Content, Community): https://aipoweredsearch.com/Timecodes00:00 Intro00:30 Doug's and Trey's impression of the conference01:16 How modern AI changed search (if any)05:48 How to bring AI techniques into existing search engines on a budget10:44 What the AI-Powered Search course includes18:02 Staying hands-on18:47 Guest's favourite topic that keeps them up at night27:40 Message to the builders of search tech32:55 Search continues to be challenging and excitingShownotes:- 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/