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LanceDB

Winter 2022 · Active

Open-source, serverless vectordb for production-scale generative AI

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2022

Team size: 20

About

LanceDB is a new open-source vector database that can support low-latency billion-scale vector search on a single node. Built around a new columnar data format, LanceDB makes it incredibly easy to build applications for generative AI, recsys, search engines, content moderation, and more.

Founders

  • Chang SheFounder

    My passion is building tools to make teams more productive working with data. I was VP of Eng at TubiTV where I designed the ML stack and the experiment platform, in addition to growing the team by more than 3x. Previously I was CTO/co-founder of DataPad and the second major contributor to the pandas library. In a former life, I was a financial quant with stints at AQR and Barclays.

  • Lei XuFounder

    Lead in Machine Learning Platform in Cruise. Apache Hadoop HDFS PMC member and Senior Software Engineer at Cloudera. PhD in distributed storage system.