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The challenge isn't connecting to an LLM. It's figuring out what people actually mean.

The challenge isn't connecting to an LLM. It's figuring out what people actually mean.

2/19/2026 · Thomas Payet

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Introduces Meilisearch's chat route as a native solution for intent understanding, which translates natural language queries into structured search parameters. This capability leverages the existing data schema to automatically route extracted entities to appropriate filterable attributes, generating optimized search queries. This addresses the engineering challenge of building custom intent parsing layers for conversational search interfaces.

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