Laravel Worldwide Meetup - AI can find it! Semantic search with the Laravel AI SDK

This month we are joined by Nico Devs who is going to teach us all about semantic search with Laravel! Full-text search doesn't cut it when your client needs to find meaning, not just matching keywords. In this talk, Nico will build real-world semantic search using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with Eloquent, Postgres, and the Laravel AI SDK - demystifying chunks, vectors, and embeddings along the way. He'll cover how vector databases work, how to chunk and embed documents, and how to retrieve relevant content with Middleware and Tools - building a working customer service chatbot by the end. You'll leave with a solid mental model of RAG and best practices from shipping this in production. Beginner friendly: Laravel and Eloquent experience is enough, no prior AI SDK knowledge required.