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Generative AI

Weaviate's integration with Mistral's APIs allows you to access their models' capabilities directly from Weaviate.

Configure a Weaviate collection to use a generative AI model with Mistral. Weaviate will perform retrieval augmented generation (RAG) using the specified model and your Mistral API key.

More specifically, Weaviate will perform a search, retrieve the most relevant objects, and then pass them to the Mistral generative model to generate outputs.

RAG integration illustration

Your Weaviate instance must be configured with the Mistral generative AI integration (generative-mistral) module.

For Weaviate Cloud (WCD) users

This integration is enabled by default on Weaviate Cloud (WCD) instances.

For self-hosted users

You must provide a valid Mistral API key to Weaviate for this integration. Go to Mistral to sign up and obtain an API key.

Provide the API key to Weaviate using one of the following methods:

  • Set the MISTRAL_APIKEY environment variable that is available to Weaviate.
  • Provide the API key at runtime, as shown in the examples below.
Python
# Recommended: save sensitive data as environment variables
mistral_key = os.getenv("MISTRAL_API_KEY")
JavaScript/TypeScript
const mistralApiKey = process.env.MISTRAL_API_KEY || '';  // Replace with your inference API key

Configure a Weaviate index as follows to use a Mistral generative model:

Python
from weaviate.classes.config import Configureclient.collections.create(    "DemoCollection",    generative_config=Configure.Generative.mistral()    # Additional parameters not shown)
JavaScript/TypeScript
await client.collections.create({  name: 'DemoCollection',  generative: weaviate.configure.generative.mistral(),  // Additional parameters not shown});

You can specify one of the available models for Weaviate to use, as shown in the following configuration example:

Python
from weaviate.classes.config import Configureclient.collections.create(    "DemoCollection",    generative_config=Configure.Generative.mistral(        model="mistral-large-latest"    )    # Additional parameters not shown)
JavaScript/TypeScript
await client.collections.create({  name: 'DemoCollection',  generative: weaviate.configure.generative.mistral({    model: 'mistral-large-latest'  }),  // Additional parameters not shown});

You can specify one of the available models for Weaviate to use. The default model is used if no model is specified.

Configure the following generative parameters to customize the model behavior.

Python
from weaviate.classes.config import Configureclient.collections.create(    "DemoCollection",    generative_config=Configure.Generative.mistral(        # # These parameters are optional        # model="mistral-large",        # temperature=0.7,        # max_tokens=500,        # base_url="<custom_mistral_url>",    ))
JavaScript/TypeScript
await client.collections.create({  name: 'DemoCollection',  generative: weaviate.configure.generative.mistral({    // These parameters are optional    // model: 'mistral-large',    // temperature: 0.7,    // maxTokens: 500,    // baseURL: '<custom_mistral_url>',  }),});

For further details on model parameters, see the Mistral API documentation.

Aside from setting the default model provider when creating the collection, you can also override it at query time.

Python
from weaviate.classes.config import Configurefrom weaviate.classes.generate import GenerativeConfigcollection = client.collections.use("DemoCollection")response = collection.generate.near_text(    query="A holiday film",    limit=2,    grouped_task="Write a tweet promoting these two movies",    generative_provider=GenerativeConfig.mistral(        # # These parameters are optional        # model="mistral-large",        # temperature=0.7,        # max_tokens=500,    ),    # Additional parameters not shown)
JavaScript/TypeScript
import { generativeParameters } from 'weaviate-client';

You can provide the API key as well as some optional parameters at runtime through additional headers in the request. The following headers are available:

  • X-Mistral-Api-Key: The Mistral API key.
  • X-Mistral-Baseurl: The base URL to use (e.g. a proxy) instead of the default Mistral URL.

Any additional headers provided at runtime will override the existing Weaviate configuration.

Provide the headers as shown in the API credentials examples above.

After configuring the generative AI integration, perform RAG operations, either with the single prompt or grouped task method.

Single prompt RAG integration generates individual outputs per search result

To generate text for each object in the search results, use the single prompt method.

The example below generates outputs for each of the n search results, where n is specified by the limit parameter.

When creating a single prompt query, use braces {} to interpolate the object properties you want Weaviate to pass on to the language model. For example, to pass on the object's title property, include {title} in the query.

Python
collection = client.collections.use("DemoCollection")response = collection.generate.near_text(    query="A holiday film",  # The model provider integration will automatically vectorize the query    single_prompt="Translate this into French: {title}",    limit=2)for obj in response.objects:    print(obj.properties["title"])    print(f"Generated output: {obj.generated}")  # Note that the generated output is per object
JavaScript/TypeScript
let response;
const myCollection = client.collections.use("DemoCollection");

Grouped task RAG integration generates one output for the set of search results

To generate one text for the entire set of search results, use the grouped task method.

In other words, when you have n search results, the generative model generates one output for the entire group.

Python
collection = client.collections.use("DemoCollection")response = collection.generate.near_text(    query="A holiday film",  # The model provider integration will automatically vectorize the query    grouped_task="Write a fun tweet to promote readers to check out these films.",    limit=2)print(f"Generated output: {response.generative.text}")  # Note that the generated output is per queryfor obj in response.objects:    print(obj.properties["title"])
JavaScript/TypeScript
let response;
const myCollection = client.collections.use("DemoCollection");
  • open-mistral-7b (aka mistral-tiny-2312) (default)
  • open-mixtral-8x7b (aka mistral-small-2312)
  • mistral-tiny
  • mistral-small
  • mistral-small-latest (aka mistral-small-2402)
  • mistral-medium
  • mistral-medium-latest (aka mistral-medium-2312)
  • mistral-large-latest (aka mistral-large-2402)

Once the integrations are configured at the collection, the data management and search operations in Weaviate work identically to any other collection. See the following model-agnostic examples:

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