🔥 LanceDB Makes the 2024 InfraRed 100 List🔥
The InfraRed 100 list is updated every year, and it features the most impactful and fastest-growing private infrastructure companies! LanceDB is honored to be recognized on this respected list as one of the early stage (seed/A) startups.
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🤝LanceDB Joins the Open Unity Catalog Ecosystem 🤝
Databricks announced OSS Unity Catalog. LanceDB is proud to be one of the Data & AI platform ecosystem partners off the gate, as we shared the vision for open access of data between platform and vendors. We are working on a Lance dataset as one of the default volumes.
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Community contributions
Good reads
Last month, we shared the two deep dive posts columnar file readers series. We are bringing you another one this month, along with a comprehensive guide on choosing the right vector search system, and our own recommendation for a modular AI software development stack:
- Columnar File Readers in Depth: APIs and Fusion
- The Future of Vector Search - by Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡
- Developers, Ditch the Black Box: Welcome to Continue
Event recap
Running Trino SQL on a vector data lake powered by Lance
Supercharging AI Training with Mosaic Streaming and Lance Columnar Format
Latest releases
Rust and JS users no longer need to manually generate embeddings as both languages now support the embedding registry!