From the course: LLM Foundations: Vector Databases for Caching and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

GenAI with vector databases

As the users of large language models, or LLMs, grow exponentially, so is the infrastructure that is needed to build applications around them. One of the key helping technologies for using LLMs is vector databases. What is a vector database? What capabilities does it offer? How do they help with building applications around LLMs? That's what we will cover in this course. We will discuss vector database basics and a couple of popular use cases. And to get the most out of it, you should be familiar with machine learning, natural language processing, and LLMs. I am Kumaran Ponnambalam. Let's get started to learn about vector databases.

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