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It’s Time to Start Paying Attention to Vector Databases

March 11, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 4

The concepts underpinning vector databases are decades old, but it is only relatively recently that these are the underlying “secret weapon” of the largest webscale companies that provide services like search and near real-time recommendations. …

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