Cloudera, Inc. announced a strategic partnership that integrates Pinecone's AI vector database expertise into Cloudera's open data platform, aimed at transforming the way organizations harness the power of AI to streamline operations and improve customer experiences. A market leader, Pinecone's vector database is critical infrastructure for Generative AI. Pinecone is optimized to store AI representations of data (vector embeddings) and search through them by semantic similarity, something traditional databases are very inefficient at doing.

This capability is necessary for adding context to queries against applications that use Large Language Models (LLMs). That added context significantly cuts down on erroneous outputs ? often referred to as "hallucinations" ?

helping search and Generative AI applications deliver responses that are accurate and relevant. The partnership will see Cloudera integrate Pinecone's best-in-class vector database into Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), enabling organizations to more easily build and deploy highly scalable, real-time, AI-powered applications on Cloudera. This includes the release of a new Applied ML Prototype (AMP) that will allow developers to more quickly create and augment new knowledge bases from data on their own website, as well as pre-built connectors that will enable customers to more quickly set up ingest pipelines in AI applications.

In the AMP, Pinceone's vector database uses these knowledge bases to imbue context into chatbot responses, helping to ensure useful outputs.