@shedntcare_: BREAKING: Alibaba just dropped a vector database that could change RAG forever. Meet Zvec No server. No Docker. No clou…
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Alibaba released Zvec, a fully open-source vector database (Apache 2.0) that can be installed via pip and supports dense, sparse, and hybrid search for RAG applications, processing billions of vectors in milliseconds.
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BREAKING: Alibaba just dropped a vector database that could change RAG forever.
Meet Zvec
No server. No Docker. No cloud bills. pip install zvec and you’re ready in under a minute. Dense + sparse + hybrid search in one API. Searches billions of vectors in milliseconds. 100% Open Source (Apache 2.0).
If you’re building AI apps, this is worth checking out.
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