We are excited to announce the Semantic Kernel Elasticsearch vector store connector for developers building AI agents using Microsoft Semantic Kernel to use Elasticsearch as a scalable enterprise-grade vector store.

Elasticsearch and Kibana 8.13 deliver simplified kNN, improved query parallelization plus improvements to ES|QL, anomaly detection, and new improved health indicators. Also announcing the Elastic Integration Filter and GA of Kafka for Elastic Agent.

Elastic Search 8.11 allows users to run Elastic’s retrieval model ELSER in production to perform semantic search to retrieve more relevant search results. This model provides search results based on contextual meaning and user intent.