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AI · June 22, 2021

Weaviate

The AI-first search engine 💡

Weaviate launched on June 22, 2021 with 12 votes, #1,293 of 3,650 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

Curious about next-generation (vector) search engine technology? Weaviate is an open-source vector search engine that you can integrate into any application through its GraphQL API and various language clients

Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native database​. - weaviate/weaviate

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