Summary
Vector databases are emerging as a core component of the search stack for agents. In this talk, we will review how language models and agents interact with the external world to search for relevant information, and how vector databases power this interaction.
Speakers
Dr. Ram Sriharsha is the CTO at Pinecone. At Pinecone, Ram is responsible for overseeing the company’s technical direction in both engineering and research.
Prior to joining Pinecone, Ram held numerous senior positions at some of the most well-known companies in the tech industry. Most recently, he was Vice President of Engineering at Splunk where he began as a Senior Principal Scientist.
Before that, he was a product and engineering lead at Databricks for their unified analytics platform for genomics.
Some years after receiving a PhD in Physics from the University of Maryland, Ram was a Principal Software Engineer and later a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo.
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