When designing search systems, the decision to use keyword-based search, vector-based search, or a hybrid approach can significantly impact performance, relevance, and user satisfaction. Each method ...

What is vector search and how is it transforming the search experience? Edo Liberty, CEO of Pinecone and former head of Amazon's AI lab, explains. We’ve been talking with search industry pros and ...

For simple user queries, a search engine can reliably find the correct content using keyword matching alone. A “red toaster” query pulls up all of the products with “toaster” in the title or ...

Most vector search systems struggle with a basic problem: how to break complex documents into searchable pieces. The typical approach is to split text into fixed size chunks of 200 to 500 tokens, this ...

Vector databases and search aren’t new, but vectorization is essential for generative AI and working with LLMs. Here's what you need to know. One of my first projects as a software developer was ...

One of the key components of Microsoft’s Copilot Runtime edge AI development platform for Windows is a new vector search technology, DiskANN (Disk Accelerated Nearest Neighbors). Building on a ...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) processing rests on the use of vectorised data. In other words, AI turns real-world information into data that can be used to gain insight, searched for and manipulated.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Algolia today launched Algolia NeuralSearch™, a next-generation vector and keyword search in a single API with powerful, end-to-end AI processing every query. Algolia ...

Vector databases explained through speed vs velocity: why AI needs vectors, not rows and columns, to manage context, ...