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Why vector databases are having a moment as the AI hype cycle peaks


The proliferation of large language models and generative AI has created fertile ground for vector database technologies to flourish.

The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) and the generative AI(GenAI) movement have created fertile ground for vector database technologies to flourish. Marqo co-founders Tom Hamer and Jesse N. Clark previously worked in engineering roles at Amazon, where they realized the “huge unmet need” for semantic, flexible searching across different modalities such as text and images. Zaitsev compares this latest trend to what happened with JSON more than a decade ago, when web apps became more prevalent and developers needed a language-independent data format that was easy for humans to read and write.

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