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Edo Liberty on Vector Databases for Successful Adoption of Generative AI and LLM based Applications

Jun 3, 2024
Edo Liberty, CEO at Pinecone, explains the importance of vector databases in AI applications, covering technical aspects, competition involvement, data retrieval optimization, AI integration in daily life, and company investments in AR platforms and AI technologies.
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  • Vector databases enhance generative AI by retrieving data based on similarity.
  • Vector databases support diverse applications like drug design and chat bots.

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Evolution of Vector Databases

Vector databases, a key component of generative AI models, have gained significant attention in recent years. These databases operate more like search engines and are designed to work with vector embeddings, the output of machine learning models. By utilizing vector databases, complex data objects like text, images, and more can be retrieved based on similarity and relevance, making them significantly different from traditional databases.

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