# retrieval insights Rangoon Insights reporting and guides tagged retrieval. Canonical: https://rangoon.ai/insights/tags/retrieval/ ## Topics - [Agent systems](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/agents/): Agent runtimes, handoffs, tools, and the boundaries that make them reviewable. - [Governance](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/governance/): Policy, identity, authorization, approvals, and evidence for consequential work. - [Infrastructure](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/infrastructure/): Model serving, sandboxes, tool services, and deployment boundaries. - [Models](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/models/): Inference choices, local serving, compatibility, and operational tradeoffs. ## Stories - [Elastic introduced Agent Builder after an October technical-preview release note](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-elastic-agent-builder-introduction-october-2025/) Elastic introduced Agent Builder on October 21, 2025, after a dated technical-preview release note described the capability for data-grounded agent development. - [Qdrant Cloud Inference put embedding generation, storage and indexing behind one API call](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-qdrant-cloud-inference-embedding-indexing-july-2025/) Qdrant launched Cloud Inference on July 15, 2025, combining model inference, vector storage and indexing in a managed retrieval workflow. - [Google made Gemini Embedding stable while keeping vector size a retrieval choice](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-google-gemini-embedding-general-availability-july-2025/) Google made gemini-embedding-001 generally available on July 14, 2025, bringing a stable text-embedding API model with selectable output dimensions to retrieval workloads. - [Milvus 2.6 made storage format and cost controls part of billion-scale retrieval claims](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-milvus-2-6-billion-scale-retrieval-june-2025/) Milvus announced version 2.6 on June 12, 2025, describing Storage Format V2, advanced search and architecture work intended for large vector collections. - [Voyage’s 3.5 embedding release put dimensions and quantization beside retrieval scores](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-voyage-3-5-embeddings-may-2025/) Voyage introduced voyage-3.5 and voyage-3.5-lite on May 20, 2025, coupling 32K-context embeddings with selectable dimensions and quantization for retrieval indexes. - [Weaviate announced a three-agent suite while keeping availability stages distinct](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-weaviate-agents-suite-march-2025/) Weaviate announced its Query, Transformation and Personalization Agents on March 4, 2025; only Query Agent entered public preview in that launch record. - [MongoDB acquired Voyage AI and outlined a retrieval roadmap for its database platform](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-mongodb-voyage-ai-acquisition-february-2025/) MongoDB announced its acquisition of Voyage AI on February 24, 2025, keeping Voyage model APIs available while outlining future Atlas embedding and reranking integration. - [Snowflake introduced Cortex Agents in public preview for work across structured and unstructured data](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-snowflake-cortex-agents-public-preview-february-2025/) Snowflake launched Cortex Agents in public preview on February 12, 2025, combining Cortex Analyst, Cortex Search and language models for enterprise data tasks. - [Pinecone made Assistant generally available with chat, context and document-format additions](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-pinecone-assistant-general-availability-january-2025/) Pinecone made Assistant generally available on January 23, 2025, adding chat and context APIs, custom instructions, regional control and broader document formats. - [Qdrant 1.13 joined GPU indexing with collection-level operational limits](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-qdrant-1-13-gpu-indexing-strict-mode-january-2025/) Qdrant released version 1.13 on January 23, 2025, adding GPU-accelerated HNSW indexing, strict-mode controls and a new storage engine. - [Microsoft Research released GraphRAG 1.0 with configuration and data-model changes](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-microsoft-graphrag-1-0-december-2024/) Microsoft Research released GraphRAG 1.0 on December 16, 2024, pairing an official package milestone with refactors to configuration, output data and project setup. - [EmbeddingGemma made embedding dimension a retrieval deployment control](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-google-embeddinggemma-on-device-september-2025/) Google introduced the 308M-parameter EmbeddingGemma on September 4, 2025, combining on-device embedding with configurable output dimensions for retrieval system design. - [Cohere’s Rerank 3.5 release changed both retrieval ranking and the API contract](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-cohere-rerank-3-5-december-2024/) Cohere released Rerank v3.5 and a v2 Rerank API on December 2, 2024, adding a 4,096-token context limit and explicit model selection. ## More information - [Documentation index](https://rangoon.ai/llms.txt) - [AI access and policies](https://rangoon.ai/ai/) - [Source repository](https://github.com/hypler-dev/rangoon)