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Elastic has expanded its search platform to support the development of AI-powered applications, offering tools for text, vector, hybrid, and semantic search. These capabilities are designed to be integrated via robust APIs and Elasticsearch, allowing teams to build custom search solutions tailored to their specific needs. The platform supports multilingual relevance at scale, leveraging GPU-accelerated inference models like Jina embeddings and rerankers, which operate across more than 30 languages for applications such as search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and AI agents.

Developers can now deploy hybrid conversational search in production environments, enabling advanced RAG and conversational search experiences. Elasticsearch continues to serve as a reliable foundation for search functionality, offering flexibility in data indexing, enrichment, and synchronization through connectors, open crawlers, APIs, or JSON imports. Behavioral analytics tools provide insights into user interactions, allowing teams to refine and improve search performance based on real-time data.

The platform enhances generative AI workflows by enabling the integration of proprietary data into large language models (LLMs), improving relevance and accuracy. Vector search, powered by machine learning, allows for instant retrieval of similar data, while GPU-accelerated multilingual retrieval and reranking are available directly within Elasticsearch using native Jina AI models or third-party alternatives. Geospatial data can be stored and queried efficiently, with Kibana providing visualization and anomaly detection tools for location-based challenges.

Elastic introduces semantic search capabilities that combine lexical keyword search with contextual understanding through Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF), delivering unified and superior result sets. Retrievers, including standard, k-nearest neighbors (kNN), and RRF, are now generally available, supporting complex search operations. These tools can be integrated into modular, composable search pipelines, allowing teams to test retrieval strategies, fine-tune scoring, apply filters, and optimize performance while maintaining compatibility with traditional queries.