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MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria talks AI hype and the database evolution as he crosses 10-year mark
Dev Ittycheria has grown database provider MongoDB into a $26 billion company, serving as president and CEO for the past 10 years.
Like NoSQL, vector databases also specialize in unstructured data types (e.g., images, videos, social media posts), but are particularly well suited to large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. In some ways, this was the bellwether of what was to come, with countless infrastructure companies going on to abandon their open source credentials to prevent the cloud giants (e.g., Amazon) from selling their own version of the service without giving back. Four months ago, though, MongoDB revealed a data breach that exposed “some customer account metadata and contact information” — it involved a phishing attack through a third-party enterprise tool (Ittycheria wouldn’t confirm which).
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