Council Post: The AI-First Database Ecosystem

Bob van Luijt is CEO of SeMI Technologies the company behind the open-source vector search engine Weaviate. A new ecosystem of smaller companies is ushering in a "third wave" of AI-first database technology. New search engines and databases brilliantly answer queries posed in natural language, but their machine-learning models are not limited to text searches. The same approach can also be used to search anything from images to DNA. Much of the software involved is open source, so it functions transparently and users can customize it to meet their specific needs.