Introducing Pinecone Assistant in Beta

Pinecone Assistant, now in beta, is an API service designed to answer complex questions about proprietary data securely within applications, offering simplicity, high-quality results, and full control over data. It addresses the challenges developers face in creating AI assistants that accurately handle private data by allowing them to upload files and quickly prototype solutions without needing deep AI expertise. The service leverages a robust vector database and frontier models like GPT-4o from Azure OpenAI Service, ensuring reliable, accurate answers that are grounded in the user's data. Pinecone Assistant emphasizes data privacy and security, encrypting uploaded data and not using it to train the underlying language model, thereby allowing users to control what the assistant knows or forgets. Released in beta with starting limits on file storage and queries, Pinecone Assistant is expected to improve rapidly with user feedback, especially from those in regulated industries.