# "Vector search and applications" by Andrey Vasnetsov, CTO at Qdrant<!--StartFragment-->

Andrey Vasnetsov, Co-founder and CTO at Qdrant has shared about vector search and applications with Learn NLP Academy. 

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He covered the following topics:

* Qdrant search engine and Quaterion similarity learning framework;
* Similarity learning to multimodal settings;
* Elastic search embeddings vs vector search engines;
* Support for multiple embeddings;
* Fundraising and VC discussions;
* Vision for vector search evolution;
* Finetuning for out of domain.

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