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AI adoption will not happen at the same pace everywhere. While some markets have moved quickly toward all-in-one and conversational experiences, others are taking a more measured approach focused on customer readiness, performance, and ROI. Algolia CEO Stephen Lynch shares his perspective with BBC Business. Watch the clip and see the full BBC News interview: http://bit.ly/45ivOHk

Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2026 is bringing technology leaders and innovators together for four days of AI innovation, emerging technologies, and forward-thinking conversations in Orlando! Join Algolia at booth #1003 to explore how we're powering the intelligence layer behind AI experiences. Discover how trusted, real-time data fuels smarter search, more relevant recommendations, and AI agents that drive real business impact. 📅 October 19–22 | 📍 Orlando, FL Connect with our experts at #GartnerSYM → https://lnkd.in/gXwHybBC

Search was won on speed. Discovery will be won on intelligence. That's why Algolia acquired Velou today. For more than a decade, we made the search box fast. Then we built intelligence on top of it – NeuralSearch, Recommendations, Personalization, Agent Studio. But there was always another side to the equation. Behavior tells us what shoppers do. Retrieval tells us what they mean. Nobody was telling us what the product actually is. Here's the problem every merchandising leader I've talked to this year lives with. Your customers ask for more than your catalog knows. Product data arrives from hundreds of suppliers, inconsistent & missing the attributes shoppers actually search for. So your team patches it by hand with tags, synonyms & rules – & the job never ends because the catalog changes daily. The people you hired to merchandise the assortment end up fixing the data underneath it. Velou fixes that at the source. It reads the text & imagery you already have and creates the attributes a merchandiser would add with unlimited time – navy, midi, fabric weight, occasion – mapped to a retail taxonomy and refreshed as the catalog changes. Every attribute is grounded in evidence from the product itself. That matters more than it sounds. A confident wrong attribute is worse than a missing one – & Velou chose the disciplined path when a looser one would have been easier to sell. We've partnered with Velou for a while – but starting today, we're one company. Welcome to the team Gavin Hewitt, Sadee Gamhewa & the Velou team. Let’s go. I wrote more on why we did it here: https://lnkd.in/eABy4Unj

Great ranking can't find what the data never described. Today Algolia acquires Velou (now part of Algolia) to fix that at the source. Every search engine, recommendation model, and AI shopping agent runs on product data. When a listing reads “Blue Size 00 T-Shirt” with no tags, a parent searching “6 month baby boy clothes” never sees it. Velou's computer vision and language models read product photos and descriptions, then fill in the attributes retailers never had time to enter: neckline, sleeve length, material, age, season. Trained on retail data and tuned with merchandiser feedback, it knows buffalo plaid from gingham. With Velou inside Algolia, the data and retrieval layers come from one team. Cleaner catalogs feed NeuralSearch, personalization, and the agents our customers build in Agent Studio. We've partnered for a while. Starting today, we're one company. Welcome to the team Gavin Hewitt, Sadee Gamhewa and the Velou team. Explore what’s next: https://lnkd.in/gqXT6nsd

The next big shift in ecommerce starts with who’s doing the shopping. AI agents. As agentic commerce grows, product data needs to be structured, specific, and easy for AI to understand. We explore how to optimize your listings for agentic retrieval and give AI agents the context they need to confidently surface your products. See how to optimize your catalog for the next generation of shopping ⤵

From the opening keynote to the final session, Algolia DevCon 2026 delivered, leaving us inspired and ready to build the next chapter of discovery in the agentic era. 💫 In case you missed it, Algolia CEO Stephen Lynch opened the day exploring what the shift from keywords to agents means for developers, and why discovery remains the problem underneath every new interface. A huge thank you to our speakers for sharing their insights, lessons, and hard-won experience: Tom Claes, Emir Belkahia, Lizzy Samples, MA, Tatyana (Tanya) Herman, Micah Garside-White, Tal Peleg, Natan Yagudayev, Paul-Louis Nech, and Marwan Burelle, along with our host Chuck. Meyer. And of course, thank you to our incredible developer community for showing up and bringing the energy. Missed a session, or want to watch it again? Catch the full replay here: alg.li/devcon26-youtube

The countdown is on: #AlgoliaDevCon is 24 hours away! 🚀 Our free virtual developer conference, "Beyond Search: Discovery in the Agentic Era," kicks off tomorrow, October 1st at 8:00am PT! We're diving deep into the technical side of building with AI: agents running in production, MCP, retrieval, grounding, developer tooling, and fresh approaches to getting users to the right information faster. Expect real-world implementations, hard-won lessons, and ideas you can put to use immediately. Featuring sessions from Algolia CEO Stephen Lynch, Chuck. Meyer, Tatyana (Tanya) Herman, Tal Peleg, Micah Garside-White, Emir Belkahia, Natan Yagudayev, Marwan Burelle and Radikal, Shopify Platinum Partner Tom Claes. Which sessions are you most excited for? Drop them in the comments 👇 Not registered yet? Save your seat: https://algolia.com/devcon

That’s a wrap on Groceryshop 2026! Fresh conversations, big ideas, full cart. A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by the Algolia booth, caught a demo, and spent time with us in Las Vegas last week. From AI-powered search and discovery to the future of agentic commerce, we loved hearing how grocery and CPG leaders are thinking about what’s next for the digital aisle. The show may be over, but the conversation doesn’t have to be. See how Algolia is helping grocers turn shopper intent into better discovery, bigger baskets, and more relevant experiences: https://lnkd.in/eB5qAn7C Until next time, Groceryshop! 👋

NEW: Algolia AI Search as a language-aware relevance engine 🌎🔎 Global search is about more than translation. Delivering truly relevant experiences across markets means understanding language, local intent, cultural context, and the business signals that influence what each user should see. Our latest whitepaper explores how Algolia AI Search brings these signals together to deliver consistent relevance across languages and markets. Inside, we cover: → How hybrid search works across languages → How local signals shape relevance → How to keep ranking consistent across markets Read the full whitepaper to see how to scale relevance across global markets: https://bit.ly/46yyp0w

One week to go until #AlgoliaDevCon 2026! On October 1, join us online for Beyond Search: Discovery in the Agentic Era. We’ll get into the technical side of building with AI: agents in production, MCP, retrieval, grounding, developer tooling, and new ways to connect users with the right information. Expect real implementations, lessons learned, and ideas you can apply to what you’re building right now. DevCon is free, virtual, and open to developers everywhere. 📅 Thursday, October 1st 🎟️ www.algolia.com/devcon