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Meilisearch January Updates

Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. January 2025 edition.

10 Feb 20252 min read
Laurent Cazanove
Laurent CazanoveDeveloper Experience Engineer@StriftCodes
Meilisearch January Updates

šŸ‡ÆšŸ‡µ New Meilisearch Cloud region

New Meilisearch Cloud region: Japan

Meilisearch Cloud is expanding! You can now deploy Meilisearch in Japan. Get faster, localized search today.

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šŸ”” Upgrade to v1.12

Meilisearch 1.12 release notes

Last month, we shipped v1.12 which brings 2x faster document insertion, 4x faster incremental updates, and 1.5x faster embedding generation. Update now!

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šŸ“° In the news

šŸ’¬ Building a RAG system with Meilisearch

Learn the best practices for building a retrieval-augmented generation system.

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šŸ” Semantic search with Mistral embeddings

Build semantic search with the latest Mistral Small 3 model from Anthropic.

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✨ How personalization and recommendations enhance search and discovery

A case study of how Amazon, Reddit, Notion, and more build engaging search UX.

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āš›ļø How to add AI-powered search to a React app

Learn to build a React movie search and recommendation app with Meilisearch.

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šŸš€ Building docs search with Docs Crawler

Integrate search in your documentation website using the documentation crawler.

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šŸ¤— 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.

LibreChat

We’re always looking to promote new projects from the community. Post yours in the #built-with-meilisearch channel!

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