The vector database to build knowledgeable AI | Pinecone

# Pinecone > Search through billions of items for similar matches to any object, in milliseconds. It’s the next generation of search, an API call away. [Start Building](https://www.pinecone.io/agents/pinecone/) ## About Pinecone Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. More than 9,000 customers across industries have shipped agents, search, and recommendation systems faster and more confidently with Pinecone. The company is based in New York and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital. ## Why Pinecone We provide the vector database for developers to build the most accurate and performant AI applications at scale – and achieve the fastest time to value for their organizations. - Provides all the components and capabilities for high-quality, accurate end-to-end retrieval in a single place: - Combines cutting edge models (embedding, planning, reranking) with flexible and powerful query mechanisms (vector, keywords, filtering, namespaces,...) to retrieve relevant insights from any kind of data - Tightly integrating leading research with engineering enables us to rapidly develop differentiated search and retrieval quality features (e.g., Pinecone's sparse embedding and reranking models) - Core technological differentiation from the market enables industry-leading performance for large-scale retrieval - Proprietary record-breaking Rust implementations of algorithms based on cutting-edge research provide low latency on top of massive datasets - Cloud-native architecture that separates storage from compute and reads from writes allows for hands-free scaling up to millions of namespaces, billions of vectors, and 1000s of queries per second (QPS) - Built-in freshness means updates are indexed and searchable in seconds for highly-dynamic workloads - Fully-managed serverless experience prov