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Companies and individuals wanting a tool to perform advanced search and retrieval operations
About Azure AI Search
Deliver high-quality responses with a vector database built for advanced retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and modern search. Focus on exponential growth with an enterprise-ready vector database that comes with security, compliance, and responsible AI practices built in. Build better applications with sophisticated retrieval strategies backed by decades of research and customer validation. Quickly deploy your generative AI app with seamless platform and data integrations for data sources, AI models, and frameworks. Automatically upload data from a wide range of supported Azure and third-party sources. Streamline vector data processing with built-in extraction, chunking, enrichment, and vectorization, all in one flow. Support for multivector, hybrid, multilingual, and metadata filtering. Move beyond vector-only search with keyword match scoring, reranking, geospatial search, and autocomplete.
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Implement a unique custom modification of the HNSW algorithm for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search. Search with a State-of-the-Art speed and apply search filters without compromising on results.
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Microsoft
Founded: 1975
United States
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/ai-search/
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