TurboQuant
Qdrant 1.20 adds turbo8 and turbo16 datatypes and per-element nested indexing
Qdrant 1.20 introduces two quantization-native vector datatypes, turbo8 and turbo16, along with per-element indexing for nested payload fields. According to Qdrant, the…
Qdrant 1.20 adds BM25 on full-text indexes and TurboQuant datatypes
Qdrant 1.20.0 lets users rank full-text results with BM25 straight from payload text, with no embeddings or sparse vectors to generate. The release also brings a code…
Qdrant Shrinks Perplexity's Visual Retriever Vectors 21x With TurboQuant
Qdrant says its TurboQuant compression cuts the per-page vector size of Perplexity's pplx-embed-v2-late from 856 KB to 40 KB, a 21x reduction, while retaining 96.5% of…
Qdrant Tests How Far EmbeddingGemma 2 Vectors Can Be Shrunk
Qdrant says quantized full-size EmbeddingGemma 2 vectors kept 99% of their retrieval quality while using 30x less vector RAM. The vector database company tested Google's…