VectorDB

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Abraham: Customers almost never ask Reducto about RAG chunking anymore
“Part of the initial interest for Reducto is RAG as a paradigm introduced this need for thinking about chunking, for example. So it wasn't just, can you parse the documents? It was after you parse it, what do I feed into my VectorDB? That was a, Initial selling…”
Adit Abraham Apr 29, 2025 ▶ 33:40 How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (CEO at Reducto)
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Habib: Vector databases fail at RAG retrieval beyond 50,000 pages
“Like, it's fine when I am, I've indexed 50 pages, but when it goes to 50,000, you know, I can't get this needle in a haystack out of my kind of VectorDB approach.”
May Habib Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 32:45 Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
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Appenzeller: AI requires a new infrastructure stack including vector databases
“You need a completely different stack in terms of all the different pieces, right? You probably want VectorDBs to retrieve context. You know, you want different types of hosting providers that are good in hosting these models and providing them to you as a ser…”
Guido Appenzeller Aug 25, 2023 ▶ 21:09 Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs

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