Zilliz Launches Loon, a Lake-Native Storage Engine That Lets One Copy of Vector Data Serve Every AI Workload
Zilliz, a leading AI data infrastructure company and the creator of Milvus, recently announced Loon, the new storage engine that powers Zilliz Vector Lakebase and ships in Milvus 3.0. Loon is the lake-native foundation that lets a single copy of vector data serve real-time search, large-scale discovery, and batch analytics at once — the storage layer behind Zilliz Cloud's evolution from a vector database into a unified data platform for AI.
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Zilliz Pioneers Vector Database R&D, Shares New Findings at VLDB 2022
The latest research on vector databases from Zilliz, a leading vector database company and the inventor of Milvus, was featured at the 48th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2022). The paper, titled "Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System," explains Manu, the project name for Milvus 2.0, as a cloud-native, next-generation vector database that implements long-term evolvability, tunable consistency, good elasticity, and high performance. On September 7, Xiaomeng Yi, co-author and Senior Researcher at Zilliz, presented the paper at the conference in an online session on specialized and domain-specific data management.
Vector Database Company Zilliz Raises $60 Million Series B Extension to Expand Its Operations in Silicon Valley
Zilliz, a leading vector database company and the inventor of Milvus, announced today that it has raised a $60 million extension to its initial $43 million Series B. Prosperity7 Ventures, the diversified growth fund under Aramco Ventures, led the round, with participation from existing investors Temasek's Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, and Yunqi Capital. This brings total investment in the company to $113 million. Following the opening of its Silicon Valley headquarters, Zilliz will use this influx of funding to expand both engineering and go-to-market teams. This will enable Zilliz to double-down on its continuous commitment to open source and further enhance its managed cloud offering.
Zilliz Announces Key Contributions to Milvus 2.1, the Leading Open-Source Vector Database for Structured and Unstructured Data
Zilliz, whose founders created the Milvus open-source project, today announced major contributions to the Milvus 2.1 release. The added functionality further bridges the gap between data pools, removes data silos, and offers performance and availability enhancements to address developers' most common concerns. Milvus is one of the world’s most advanced vector databases, capable of managing massive quantities of both structured and unstructured data to accelerate the development of next-generation data fabric.
