August 2024 Product Update

What this post added

This post announces the general availability of Pinecone serverless on Azure and GCP, expanding the platform's reach. It also introduces the public preview of Pinecone Assistant, a new capability for deploying customized assistants. Furthermore, reranking functionality has been integrated into Pinecone Inference, allowing for embedding, reranking, and querying within a single API, aiming to improve RAG application accuracy and reduce latency/cost. Backups are now available for Standard and Enterprise users, enhancing data security and compliance. Additionally, API Key Roles are in early access, providing granular control over data and control plane access.