A primer on vector search using Pinecone Serverless

Pinecone recently launched its serverless offering with the goal of making vector search implementation easier and cost-efficient. With LLMs rapidly becoming a core part of applications and most of them using RAG in their implementation – vector search is an important concept to understand. In today’s post, we’ll look at how to implement vector search using Pinecone Serverless.

What is vector search and why is it needed?

In traditional keyword search (like the one in Elasticsearch), given a search term …

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