Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 12:00 noon, CDT (UTC−5:00) Download .ics

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Taking AI Kit off the Grid – How to build your own private semantic search engine – Keisuke Miyako

“How does your application use AI?” Heard that question recently? I sure have! We are all living through a major change in the world of technology, and as application developers ourselves, we are expected to deploy AI features as soon as possible or risk falling behind the competition and/or be viewed as, brace yourself, old and outdated.

We have already seen a great demonstration of integrating a 4D application with AI last year with Ricardo Mello and Mathieu Ferry’s fantastic presentation, 4D AI Platform – the Future Is Now. Their demo showed how to add AI chat into an app to perform searches, generate reports, and serve other useful enquiries. However the best AI chat style functionality is still powered by cloud services like Claude.ai and ChatGPT. Cloud-based APIs are convenient and capable, but there are issues to consider with tying your application to them such as cost, vendor lock-in, and privacy.

What about taking AI off the grid instead?!?

Keisuke Miyako returns to the user group to deliver a tour de force presentation (as per usual but especially so in this case) on how to run your own local LLM, including model considerations and setup configuration, to provide semantic search functionality in 4D applications that leverages 4D AI Kit and 4D.Vector search capabilities. “A privately hosted open-source model, running entirely on your own hardware, is producing results in the same range as a state-of-the-art cloud API. No API key, no data leaving your machine, no per-token billing.”