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AI · June 10, 2024

Vectara API v2

REST API simplifies Retrieval Augmented Generation

Vectara API v2 launched on June 10, 2024 with 9 votes, #1,154 of 4,672 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

Vectara's API v2 brings an incredibly simple and easy to use retrieval augmented generation API to the market. Forget about trying to figure out text extraction, segmentation, embedding models, and hybrid search: Vectara handles it all for you

Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re introducing a brand new REST API for Vectara: API v2. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re introducing a brand new REST API for Vectara: API v2. API v2 brings enormous quality-of-life improvements for software developers using the Vectara platform and we’d like to walk you through what some of those are, why we’ve chosen to make them, and what you can do to get the most out of the Vectara platform now. Vectara’s API has been rich and highly capable: you can define a reranking strategy, a hybrid/keyword strategy, specify multiple corpora to target your query against, provide structured filters, and so on. However, a complex JSON structure…from vectara.com

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