[HN Gopher] Retrieval powered by object storage: AMA
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       Retrieval powered by object storage: AMA
        
       Hey everyone - I'm Jeff from the Chroma team. Chroma is the most
       popular open-source vector database.  Chroma now has a fully-
       distributed and serverless version backed by object-storage (also
       Apache 2.0).  More on why and how we built this here:
       https://www.trychroma.com/engineering/serverless  AMA about AI,
       retrieval, systems, Rust, and more.
        
       Author : jeffchuber
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2024-10-10 20:22 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
       | SunlitCat wrote:
       | Okay! I have a question, more like an observation! (Sorry I am
       | maybe not your target audience, but to get things started)
       | 
       | Many buzzwords used and after reading your project page, I
       | requested the help of ChatGPT to make any sense out of it!
       | 
       | Is what Chatgpt tells me about your interesting project right?
       | 
       | This is what it has to say:
       | 
       | Chroma's serverless system is designed to help developers build
       | AI applications without managing servers. It allows you to
       | efficiently store and retrieve data using vectors (for AI models)
       | and text queries, all without needing to handle infrastructure.
       | The system is scalable, cost-effective, and optimized for AI
       | workloads, so developers can focus on their projects rather than
       | backend management.
        
         | jeffchuber wrote:
         | Thanks ChatGPT!
         | 
         | Yes - that's a great explanation.
        
       | swyx wrote:
       | what do you think about ColBERT? doing embedding on every token
       | feels wrong in ways i can't articulate - is there a time to use
       | it and not use it, or is it the one retrieval technique to rule
       | them all?
        
         | jeffchuber wrote:
         | Colbert is great! - Check out
         | https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/RAGatouille by the excellent
         | https://x.com/bclavie
         | 
         | Relatedly ColPali (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01449) is gaining
         | a ton of steam in the IR community.
         | 
         | In general we are skeptical of silver bullets in retrieval.
        
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