Agents need vector search more than RAG ever did

Qdrant's $50M Series B and version 1.17 release make the case that agentic AI didn't simplify vector search — it scaled the ...
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Why Postgres® has won as the de facto database: Today and for the agentic future

The 13% succeeding with AI platforms share one move: unifying their data on an extensible Postgres® foundation.

Google Gemini Embedding 2 Supports Text, Images, Audio, PDFs & Short Videos

Google Gemini Embedding 2 unifies text, images, audio, PDFs, and video; it supports 3,072-dimension vectors, simplifying retrieval stacks.

Google's Gemini Embedding 2 arrives with native multimodal support to cut costs and speed up your enterprise data stack

While previous embedding models were largely restricted to text, this new model natively integrates text, images, video, audio, and documents into a single numerical space — reducing latency by as muc ...
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Unstructured and Teradata Partner to Make Enterprise Data AI-Ready at Scale

Unstructured today announced a partnership with Teradata to deliver data ingestion and processing as a native capability inside Teradata Enterprise Vector Store. Expected to be available to eligible ...
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MariaDB taps GridGain to keep pace with AI-driven data demands

The company plans to integrate GridGain’s in-memory computing tech to deliver sub-millisecond performance for operational, transactional, and AI applications.