PINECONE SYSTEMS INC


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Pinecone Launches Partner Program to Bring More Companies Into the AI Stack

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Monday, April 8, 2024

NEW YORK, April 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone , the vector database company making AI knowledgeable, announced the launch of the Pinecone Partner Program.

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  • NEW YORK, April 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone , the vector database company making AI knowledgeable, announced the launch of the Pinecone Partner Program.
  • The program lets software providers become part of the critical AI ecosystem by offering streamlined access to the market-leading vector database inside their products.
  • Expanded and streamlined access for developers to the vector database inside their existing tools will dramatically accelerate successful deployments of AI applications.
  • "Developers want a simple workflow even if their projects are incredibly ambitious," said Edo Liberty, Founder & CEO of Pinecone.

Pinecone Appoints Chuck Fontana as VP of Business Development

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Thursday, October 19, 2023

NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone, the vector database company providing long-term memory for AI, today announced the appointment of Chuck Fontana as its VP of Business Development. In this newly created position, Fontana is responsible for capitalizing on the rapidly growing interest in partnering with Pinecone to deliver integrated and easy-to-use solutions for building Generative AI applications and taking these solutions to market. In this role, Fontana will manage all partner relationships including those with cloud and data platforms, LLM providers, system integrators, and other companies in the GenAI and cloud infrastructure space.

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  • NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone , the vector database company providing long-term memory for AI, today announced the appointment of Chuck Fontana as its VP of Business Development.
  • "I'm thrilled to join the Pinecone team and contribute to the incredible momentum we've already built," said Fontana.
  • Previously, Fontana served as Senior VP of Business Development at SentinelOne, where he was part of the management team that took the prominent cybersecurity company public in 2021.
  • We are excited to have Chuck build our Business Development function to capitalize on these tremendous opportunities and ensure we equally serve our partners."

Pinecone working with AWS to solve Generative AI hallucination challenges

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone, the vector database company providing long-term memory for artificial intelligence (AI), announced an integration with Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for building GenAI applications. The announcement means customers can now drastically reduce hallucinations and accelerate the go-to-market of Generative AI (GenAI) applications such as chatbots, assistants, and agents.

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  • The announcement means customers can now drastically reduce hallucinations and accelerate the go-to-market of Generative AI (GenAI) applications such as chatbots, assistants, and agents.
  • "We've already seen a large number of AWS customers adopting Pinecone," said Edo Liberty, Founder & CEO of Pinecone.
  • This integration of Amazon Bedrock and Pinecone will help customers streamline their generative AI application development process by helping deliver relevant  responses."
  • "We have AI applications in AWS and tens of billions of vector embeddings in Pinecone," said Samee Zahid, Director of Engineering, Chipper Cash.

Pinecone to Speed Up Generative AI for Microsoft Azure and Azure OpenAI Service Customers

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Thursday, July 13, 2023

NEW YORK, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone, the vector database company providing long-term memory for AI, today announced it will be available on Microsoft Azure. The announcement means Azure customers now use a vector database closer to their data and applications, and in turn provide fast, accurate, and secure Generative AI applications for their users.

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  • The announcement was made as part of Pinecone's " AI Transformation Summit ," a full-day event produced in collaboration with Microsoft.
  • "Thanks to our collaboration with Microsoft, we are thrilled to finally unlock access to Pinecone for Azure customers."
  • The addition of Azure regions means Pinecone customers can now choose to run the managed service in all three major cloud providers.
  • "That's why we're thrilled our customers can now run the Pinecone vector database in the Azure cloud, alongside Azure OpenAI Service and the rest of their AI workflows."

Amid Massive Growth in 2022, Pinecone names Bob Wiederhold as President & COO

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone, the vector database company providing long-term memory for AI, today announced significant growth in 2022 and that former Couchbase CEO and Executive Chairman Bob Wiederhold has joined as President and COO after 15 months as an active advisor and board member.

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  • Pinecone provides a vector database that acts as the long-term memory for AI applications.
  • Amidst this growth — which has accelerated further since the start of 2023 — Bob Wiederhold has joined Pinecone full time.
  • "I have been blown away by the technology Pinecone is delivering and the strength of its Product-Led Growth motion," said Wiederhold.
  • "There is incredibly rapid growth across all business metrics, from market awareness to developer adoption to paying customers using Pinecone in mission-critical applications.

Pinecone now available on AWS Marketplace and GCP Marketplace

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Monday, February 6, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone Systems Inc. , a machine learning (ML) infrastructure company, today announced that it is now available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, as well as the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace, allowing AWS and GCP users to quickly and easily build advanced artificial intelligence (AI) applications using Pinecone's leading vector database.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone Systems Inc. , a machine learning (ML) infrastructure company, today announced that it is now available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, as well as the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace, allowing AWS and GCP users to quickly and easily build advanced artificial intelligence (AI) applications using Pinecone's leading vector database.
  • AWS and GCP users can now start building immediately with Pinecone, skipping pre-approval steps, including licensing and pre-configuration.
  • Making Pinecone available on the AWS Marketplace and the GCP Marketplace makes it more accessible and easier to get started than ever," said Edo Liberty, Founder and CEO of Pinecone.
  • For more information about Pinecone on AWS Marketplace: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/pinecone-aws-marketplace/
    For more information about Pinecone on GCP Marketplace: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/pinecone-gcp-marketplace/

Pinecone launches world's most advanced hybrid search functionality

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Monday, October 31, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone Systems Inc., a machine learning (ML) search infrastructure company, today announced the release of an innovative keyword-aware semantic search solution that enables the world's most accessible and advanced combination of semantic and keyword search results.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone Systems Inc., a machine learning (ML) search infrastructure company, today announced the release of an innovative keyword-aware semantic search solution that enables the world's most accessible and advanced combination of semantic and keyword search results.
  • With few exceptions, companies have to choose between semantic search and keyword search, or running both systems in parallel.
  • "Our research shows that keyword-aware semantic search is superior to either semantic search or keyword search separately.
  • Pinecone developed a first-of-its-kind hybrid search technology that makes keyword-aware semantic search possible.

Pinecone announces new features to lower the barrier of entry for vector search

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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone Systems Inc., a search infrastructure company, today announced the release of new features and enhancements that make it significantly easier for developers — regardless of AI or ML experience and background — to get started with vector search for applications such as semantic search and recommendation systems. New features include up to 10x faster indexes, flexible collections of vector data, and zero-downtime vertical scaling.

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  • New features include up to 10x faster indexes, flexible collections of vector data, and zero-downtime vertical scaling.
  • "Our vector database makes it easy for engineers to build capabilities like semantic search, AI recommendations, image search, and AI threat detection, but for teams who are new to vector search, some challenges remain," said Edo Liberty, founder and CEO of Pinecone.
  • Our new release addresses these technical challenges, further simplifying and speeding up vector search."
  • Pinecone has built the first vector database to enable the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the cloud.

Pinecone Announces $28M Series A Financing to Bring Search into AI Age

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

SAN MATEO, Calif., March 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone Systems Inc. , a search infrastructure company, today announced the completion of a $28M Series A funding round to enable companies of all sizes to power search applications with AI.

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  • SAN MATEO, Calif., March 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pinecone Systems Inc. , a search infrastructure company, today announced the completion of a $28M Series A funding round to enable companies of all sizes to power search applications with AI.
  • "Search technology has revolved around keywords for hundreds of years; books contained search indexes before the invention of the printing press.
  • Amazingly, today's predominant search infrastructure still works the same way," said Edo Liberty, Founder and CEO of Pinecone.
  • Pinecone has built the first vector database to enable the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the cloud.

Former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia and Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold Bet on Pinecone

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

An enterprise software executive and the former CEO of data warehousing giant, Snowflake, Bob Muglia led the company to five years of unprecedented growth and raised hundreds of millions in funding.

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  • An enterprise software executive and the former CEO of data warehousing giant, Snowflake, Bob Muglia led the company to five years of unprecedented growth and raised hundreds of millions in funding.
  • That has now changed but this requires a new kind of infrastructure that intersects databases and AI" said Bob Muglia.
  • Bob Wiederhold has more than 25 years of high tech experience, having previously served as CEO of Couchbase, a leader in NoSQL databases, and then its Executive Chairman.
  • "Bob Wiederhold and Bob Muglia are the best people in the world to help us scale Pinecone," said Edo Liberty.