Pinecone serverless announced

Pinecone serverless announced — separates reads, writes and storage, eliminating idle compute costs

Why it matters

Shifted the cost structure of vector DBs from always-on to usage-based

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialpinecone.iohttps://www.pinecone.io/blog/serverless/

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