Simplify, enhance, and evaluate RAG development with Pinecone Assistant, now in public preview

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This post announces the public preview of Pinecone Assistant, detailing new features such as expanded LLM support (Claude 3.5 Sonnet via Amazon Bedrock), an Evaluation API for benchmarking correctness and completeness, metadata filtering for file association and retrieval, and a new console UI. The Evaluation API provides metrics for correctness and completeness, contributing to an 'answer alignment score'. Metadata filtering allows for targeted retrieval based on attached key-value pairs.