Pinecone

7 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 1, 2023 by Amr Awadallah · said 39 times in 11 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Matt Turck (19), Edo Liberty (6), Mike Freedman (4), Milos Rusic (2), George Sivulka (2), Florian Douetteau (2), Sridhar Ramaswamy (1), Nancy Xu (1)

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Everything said about Pinecone, oldest first

May 1, 2023 negative
Insight
DIY modular vector stacks face scale and latency issues in production
“And actually for prototyping, it's great to use that. Now get that into production at scale. And that's when you're going to start running into hiccups in terms of scalability cost wise, scalability performance wise on the ingest side, and then on the query ru…”
Amr Awadallah May 1, 2023 ▶ 23:13 LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah
May 31, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Liberty: Pinecone did not foresee the massive ChatGPT-driven AI surge
“We didn't, by the way, foresee any of this ChatGPT thing happening. We knew it was, it would keep growing, but that, I think, completely took everybody by surprise, including us.”
Edo Liberty May 31, 2023 ▶ 13:28 Long Term Memory for AI with Pinecone Founder & CEO, Edo Liberty
May 31, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liberty: A developer used Pinecone to build facial recognition for cows
“One of my favorite applications is somebody built a face detection for cows”
Edo Liberty May 31, 2023 ▶ 18:03 Long Term Memory for AI with Pinecone Founder & CEO, Edo Liberty
May 31, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Liberty: Pinecone measures hallucination reduction as a core product metric
“In fact, I was looking at experiments today from one of our teams, and we literally measure reduction in hallucination as one of the core metrics that, that, that we try to drive.”
Edo Liberty May 31, 2023 ▶ 19:00 Long Term Memory for AI with Pinecone Founder & CEO, Edo Liberty
May 31, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Liberty: Cloud hyperscalers are actively building competing vector database capabilities
“I know for a fact they're looking at it. I know for a fact they will have something.”
Edo Liberty May 31, 2023 ▶ 27:08 Long Term Memory for AI with Pinecone Founder & CEO, Edo Liberty
Sep 25, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Freedman: pgvectorscale on AWS is 75% cheaper than Pinecone
“The monthly costs of running such a PG vector scale deployment on AWS is 75% less expensive than PyIncome.”
Mike Freedman Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 10:22 Turbocharging Postgres for Time Series & Vectors — Timescale CTO Mike Freedman | Data Driven NYC
Sep 25, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Freedman: pgvectorscale is 28 times faster than Pinecone for high recall
“Compared to one of the leading vector-only databases, Pinecone, a PG vector scale is 28 times faster for a high recall scenario.”
Mike Freedman Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 9:56 Turbocharging Postgres for Time Series & Vectors — Timescale CTO Mike Freedman | Data Driven NYC
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