Explore the mechanics behind Pinecone's vector database, from pods and indexes to comparing it with other databases. Learn to differentiate pod types, acquire API keys, and initialise Pinecone connection using python. Finally, you’ll learn how to create Pinecone indexes, exploring different parameters such as dimensionality, distance metrics, pod types, and others.

Introduction to Pinecone indexes

Creating a Pinecone client

Your first Pinecone index

Managing indexes

Connecting to an index

Deleting an index

Pinecone Ecosystem

The Pinecone ecosystem

Vector ingestion

Checking dimensionality

Ingesting vectors with metadata

Introduction to Pinecone

Get hands-on with Pinecone in Python, where we explore the practical side of using Pinecone for managing indexes, adding vectors with metadata, searching and retrieving vectors, and making updates or deletions. Gain a solid grasp of the key functions and ideas to smoothly handle data in the Pinecone vector database.

Retrieving vectors

Querying vs. fetching

Fetching vectors

Querying vectors

Returning the most similar vectors

Changing distance metrics

Metadata filtering

Filtering queries

Multiple metadata filters

Updating and deleting vectors

Updating vector values

Updating vector metadata

Deleting vectors

Pinecone Vector Manipulation in Python

In this chapter, learners delve into optimizing Pinecone index performance, leveraging multi-tenant namespaces for cost reduction, building semantic search engines, and creating retrieval-augmented question answering systems using Pinecone with the OpenAI API. Through these lessons, learners gain practical skills in performance tuning, semantic search, and retrieval-augmented question answering, empowering them to apply Pinecone effectively in real-world AI applications.

Batching upserts

Defining a function for chunking

Batching upserts in chunks

Batching upserts in parallel

Multitenancy and namespaces

Namespaces

Querying namespaces

Semantic search with Pinecone

Creating and configuring a Pinecone index

Upserting vectors for semantic search

Querying vectors for semantic search

RAG chatbot with Pinecone and OpenAI

Upserting YouTube transcripts

Building a retrieval function

RAG questions answering function

Congratulations!

Performance Tuning and AI Applications

YouTube Transcripts

Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD)

Discover how the Pinecone vector database is revolutionizing AI application development. Pinecone is a fully-managed, ultra-low query latency vector database solution that is cornering the market. In this course, you'll learn to ingest, manipulate, and query vectors from Pinecone indexes. You'll use these skills, along with other fundamental concepts such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to enable AI applications such as semantic search engines and context-aware chatbots. Finally, you'll learn to optimize your production databases by looking at techniques for tuning performance, optimizing storage, and improving query latency.

<h2>Unlock the Power of Embeddings with Pinecone's Vector Database</h2>
In the introductory chapters, you'll delve into the fundamentals of Pinecone, understanding its core capabilities, benefits, and key concepts such as pods, indexes, and projects. Through hands-on lessons, you'll compare Pinecone with other vector databases, gaining insights into its unparalleled functionality and usability.<br><br>
<h2>Python Interaction with Pinecone</h2>
Equip yourself with the skills to interact seamlessly with Pinecone using Python. Learn to differentiate between pod types, set up your environment, and configure the Pinecone Python client. You will dive into the heart of Pinecone by learning to create vector databases programmatically, understand the parameters influencing Pinecone index creation, including dimensionality, distance metrics, pod types, and replicas, and master the art of ingesting vectors with metadata into Pinecone indexes. You will develop proficiency in querying and retrieving vectors using Python, and gain insights into updating and deleting vectors to handle concept drift effectively.<br><br>
<h2>Advanced Pinecone and AI Applications</h2>
Going beyond the fundamentals and explore advanced Pinecone concepts such as monitoring Pinecone performance, tuning for efficiency, and implementing multi-tenancy for access control. You will explore advanced applications, including semantic search engines built on Pinecone and integrating it with OpenAI API for projects like the RAG chatbot.

Introduction to Embeddings with the OpenAI API

Discover how the Pinecone vector database is revolutionizing AI application development!

Vector Databases for Embeddings with Pinecone

Ingegnere AI associato per sviluppatori

Connecting to an index

Vector Databases for Embeddings with Pinecone

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