Inside LinkedIn’s generative AI cookbook: How it scaled people search to 1.3 billion users
Discover how LinkedIn scaled its people search feature to serve 1.3 billion users with the power of generative AI. This article delves into the technical challenges and solutions behind implementing AI in a real enterprise setting, offering insights from exclusive interviews with LinkedIn's product and engineering team. Learn how the new AI-powered search system revolutionizes user queries by understanding intent and relevance, providing a more personalized experience. Explore the strategic playbook LinkedIn developed, emphasizing pragmatism, distillation pipelines, and relentless optimization for success at a billion-user scale. Gain valuable lessons for enterprise AI builders on moving from successful pilots to large-scale products. Uncover the innovative techniques, such as aggressive model compression and input size optimization, that enabled LinkedIn to achieve a 10x increase in ranking throughput.
