Will be interesting to see how the Valkey community reacts to this
I worked with antirez a bit before he left the project in 2020, and I still look fondly back on that time since he was a wonderful person and he helped me learn a lot. I wish he had considered coming to work with Valkey instead of Redis, but maybe we'll find some some way to work together that benefits both communities.
Note though it is not certain he even could - the Non Compete when you have significant compensation in cash or equity can be much stronger and run a lot longer than employment related
About Vector Sets: it's absolutely ok to disagree here; but what is a good thing about having multiple forks of the original Redis is that you can see it as an optimization to search for the better Redis :D The Vector Set stuff, just to be clear, was not "company stimulated", it's something that I really want and I which I strongly believe.