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Vector search is getting a lot of attention these days. Why is that?

Read about pinecone.io. Cut off a neural network that does image classification at the second to last layer and you have a system for creating meaningful vectorial representations. Then if you apply some distance metric to a bunch of these it turns out you can retrieve images that look similar to some query image.

Problem is, scaling and doing this in real-time is hard.

Use cases abound. This was only one. There are a lot of others too. Pinecone, Vespa.AI, Faiss…

Previously this type of tech was only available for the MAANGs of the world. Hope that helps

Agreed! You can check out Weaviate too. It includes out of the box vectorization modules

Thanks! Very helpful

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