# vector search insights

Rangoon Insights reporting and guides tagged vector search.

Canonical: https://rangoon.ai/insights/tags/vector-search/

## 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
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Cohere’s Embed 4 put text, images and mixed documents in one retrieval representation](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-cohere-embed-4-april-2025/)
  Cohere released Embed 4 on April 15, 2025, combining mixed text-image embeddings, 128K context and selectable embedding dimensions for retrieval.


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