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AI · January 23, 2025

Spice.ai Open Source 1.0-stable

A portable data query and LLM-inference engine built in Rust

Spice.ai Open Source 1.0-stable launched on January 23, 2025 with 5 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

A portable, single-node, compute engine built in Rust that combines federated data query, retrieval, and AI inference, accelerating data access for mission-critical workloads, mitigating AI hallucinations, and making AI simple and easy for developers.

Add a real-time analytics node to your operational database. Spice is a portable, accelerated SQL query, search, and LLM-inference engine in Rust for data-grounded AI apps and agents. - spiceai/spiceai

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