Hi everyone! Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering the key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and startups over the last month.
Recently, OpenAI acquired the data warehouse company Rockset. The rationale behind this move isn't necessarily about the intrinsic value of data warehouses for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Rather, compared to other data warehouses, Rockset is more of an indexing database. It creates inverted indexes for every column in a table, thereby offering keyword full-text search capabilities similar to Elasticsearch. Combined with vector search, this database inherently supports these two types of hybrid search capabilities. At this stage, there are very few options that offer this combination. Additionally, Rockset adopts a cloud-native architecture, and these two factors combined are the main reasons for OpenAI's decision.
Recently, OpenAI acquired the data warehouse company Rockset. The rationale behind this move isn't necessarily about the intrinsic value of data warehouses for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Rather, compared to other data warehouses, Rockset is more of an indexing database. It creates inverted indexes for every column in a table, thereby offering keyword full-text search capabilities similar to Elasticsearch. Combined with vector search, this database inherently supports these two types of hybrid search capabilities. At this stage, there are very few options that offer this combination. Additionally, Rockset adopts a cloud-native architecture, and these two factors combined are the main reasons for OpenAI's decision.