LightOn’s Multi-Vector Retrieval Revolution: From Research to Production
Discover how LightOn’s late-interaction stack, ModernBERT, PyLate, and FastPlaid,is transforming semantic search and AI retrieval from academic theory into real-world production systems
FastPlaid: Bringing Multi-Vector Search to Production Scale
FastPlaid is LightOn’s open-source Rust engine for late-interaction retrieval. Version 1.10.0 adds incrementally-updatable indexes—6.5× faster than Stanford PLAID—so your RAG, recommender or search pipeline can evolve in real time without downtime.