Today, we're launching the public preview of Zilliz Vector Lakebase — the next chapter for Zilliz Cloud. Vector Lakebase is the next step beyond vector databases. It is a semantic-centric data platform where open storage and elastic compute converge for AI workloads.

Vector Databases are purpose-built for real-time serving.

Vector Lakebase builds on an S3-based unified data foundation to power AI and agents across three workload modes:

real-time retrieval for latency-critical production serving,

iterative discovery for interactive and multi-step exploration,

batch analytics for offline mining and dataset optimization.

All scaling from gigabytes to petabytes.

Why do the unified data foundation and three workload modes really matter?

In short: because AI systems are no longer just a single-query retrieval problem.…