Microsoft has announced the Pinecone .NET SDK, for building AI applications that leverage the Pinecone vector database. With the SDK, Pinecone is becoming the newest member of the AI ecosystem in .NET, Microsoft said.
Building AI applications requires efficient vector data processing, Microsoft said in an August 27 blog post. A vector database stores and indexes embedding vectors for fast retrieval and similarity search. Embeddings are numerical representations of data such as images, text, and audio, capturing semantic meaning and relationships, thus making them essential in AI applications. With the complexity of vector embeddings, a database is needed that is designed specifically for this data type.
To start working with Pinecone in .NET, developers either must have or must set up a Pinecone account and database and create an API key. They can download the Pinecone SDK from NuGet. Afterward, they can connect the .NET client to their Pinecone database