AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 — Keyword vs Vector Search

Powered by embedded Qdrant Edge (qdrant-edge-py, in-process) behind FastAPI — no cloud. Hybrid: dense bge-small + sparse BM25 (real, in-engine, IDF) fused with RRF. Results ranked by hybrid; badged by which retriever found them.

Dense vector only BM25 only (lexical) Found by both