Summary

  • Data optimisation company MongoDB has acquired Voyage AI, a privately-held company that specialises in generating and retrieving datasets for artificial intelligence (AI).
  • While MongoDB’s database platform is already used in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, the deal with Voyage AI will improve the quality of its retrieval capabilities.
  • Voyage AI’s technology is expected to enhance MongoDB’s performance in AI-powered search and retrieval through improved accuracy, as well as customised retrieval mechanisms, to counteract the potential risk of hallucinations within gen AI.
  • Currently, competition between database vendors to create the most optimised embedding and retrieval models to generate the most accurate results for customers is high.
  • Voyage AI’s models will continue to be available to existing users, as well as being integrated into MongoDB’s database platforms.

By Sean Michael Kerner

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