2023年4月26日

Weaviate。io -一个开发者的AI-native Weaviate矢量数据库——宣布了一项5000万美元的资金由指数企业参与的电池企业。Weaviate现有的投资者包括NEA,皮质,Zetta Venture Partners,荷兰国际集团(ING)合资企业也加入了这一轮。一轮融资将用于扩大Weaviate团队并加速其广受欢迎的开源数据库的发展和新Weaviate云服务来满足快速增长的人工智能应用程序开发市场。全球人工智能技术和服务上的支出预计将达到1540亿年的2023美元,根据IDC在3000亿年超过2026美元。和应用程序开发的浪潮将采用一种新型的数据,嵌入向量,AI-generated表示的文档,图片,客户、产品和其他对象。Weaviate AI-native矢量数据库的增长是至关重要的人工智能应用程序,包括生成的人工智能。,开发人员需要使用生成、存储、共享和搜索数百万甚至数十亿的向量——经常是在实时。Weaviate数据库为AI开发者简化矢量数据管理。AI-native基础设施的重要组成部分,它解决问题的产生,储存和搜索嵌入向量及其对应的对象。 AI-native vector database capabilities include: 1.) Extensible, built-in machine learning (ML) modules – Just load and search; Weaviate does the ML heavy lifting – any data type, any model, any use case. 2.) Richer vector search – Supports a variety of ML searches with the added benefit of being able to search vectors AND the source objects from which the vectors were generated. High performance – Sub-second search, scales to billions of objects, runs non-stop. Since raising its series A funding in early 2022, Weaviate has seen open source downloads surpass the 2 million mark. And Weaviate has also launched a new Weaviate Cloud Service, which gives developers the full power of the Weaviate database without any of the operational overhead. The Weaviate Cloud Service is available immediately and can be used for free for 14 days. In February, Weaviate introduced generative search support to make it easier for developers to meaningfully harness the power of large language models (LLM) like GPT-4 and their human-like ability to seemingly understand and respond to queries in natural language. KEY QUOTES: “The Weaviate vector database is used as core infrastructure in the emerging AI-native ecosystem. It allows users, from startups to enterprises, to create a new wave of applications ranging from custom-made search and recommendation systems to ChatGPT plugins.” Weaviate CEO and co-founder Bob van Luijt “Weaviate’s vector database and search engine provides a critical piece of infrastructure that’s helping to drive a massive AI platform shift. The pace of adoption across enterprises and AI-native startups alike developing multimodal search, recommendation, and generative applications with Weaviate is incredible. This is the best-in-class product for developers building with AI and we are thrilled to be partnering with them to help drive the next phase of growth.” Index Ventures partner Erin Price-Wright “With every major data-platform shift, we’ve seen the emergence of a new, underlying technology – and the explosion of generative AI is no different. Just as Elastic and MongoDB helped companies leverage non-tabular data, we believe Weaviate is poised to lead the revolution of vector databases, giving organizations critical tools to store, index and retrieve unstructured data through vector embeddings. We could not be more excited to partner with the Weaviate team and help the company refine its go-to-market program, particularly in the U.S.” Dharmesh Thakker, a general partner at Battery Ventures Trending on Pulse 2.0