Pinecone, a serverless vector database provider, allows engineers to store vectorized data for integration with large language model (LLM) calls, enabling AI applications to incorporate external data when generating responses. Maintaining an updated database, either through a continuous feed or event-triggered updates, enhances Pinecone's effectiveness. Redpanda Connect, an alternative to Kafka Connect, facilitates the seamless integration of streaming data into Pinecone. The combination of Pinecone and Redpanda can support various applications, such as real-time recommendation systems, fraud detection, dynamic user profiling, and real-time news clustering. The tutorial demonstrates building an application using Redpanda and Pinecone to monitor and flag potentially harmful content on social media platforms, leveraging AI for initial content moderation while human reviewers handle flagged items. This setup involves creating a Redpanda cluster and topic, configuring a Pinecone index, and using Redpanda Connect to link the streaming data into Pinecone, with a sample script to populate the database and check for harmful content.