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Vector Databases Emerge to Fill Critical Role in AI

Vector databases arrived on the scene a few years ago to help power a new breed of search engines that are based on neural networks as opposed to keywords. Companies like Home Depot dramatically improved the search exper Read more…

Neural Search Platform Vectara Launches with $20M Seed

Vectara, a neural network technology platform, has announced $20 million in seed funding and has also released its first product for general availability: a neural search as a service. Many existing search engines are Read more…

Algolia Acquires Search.io to Enable Users to ‘Search As They Think’

Data search platform Algolia announced it has acquired San Francisco-based neural search startup Search.io. Algolia is known for its keyword-based search and discovery platform that processes trillions of queries from Read more…

Pinecone to Bolster Vector Search Engineering Team Following Series A

Pinecone Systems, a pioneer in enabling vector search, will be bolstering its engineering team to solidify its early momentum in the booming vector database business following its $28 million Series A, the company told D Read more…

Home Depot Finds DIY Success with Vector Search

Like all big companies, Home Depot has a list of IT projects that it wants to tackle. When the COVID pandemic hit two years ago and ecommerce activity surged, it accelerated one of them in particular: the development of Read more…

Elastic Gets New Vector Search and NLP Capabilities

Customers should get more relevant search results when using an Elastic-powered search engine thanks to the addition of vector search and NLP capabilities in Elastic 8.0, the company announced last week. Vector search Read more…

Are Neural Nets the Next Big Thing in Search?

Many, if not most, search engines in use today are based on keywords, in which the search engine attempts to find the best match for a word or set of words used as input. It’s a tried-and-true method that has been depl Read more…

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