AI Accelerator - Pipelines 1.0.0 release notes

Released: 20 November 2024

This is the GA release of EDB Postgres AI - AI Accelerator - Pipelines. Since the technical preview, a number of enhancements have been made.

Highlights

Integrated model runtime.
Support for external models with OpenAI API.
Secure management of API credentials vie postgres "user mapping" feature.
Model registry that allows configuring internal/external models.
PGFS/volumes allows working with external data from S3 object stores and file systems.
Low-level primitives for models: encode, transform for image and text data.
Enhanced retriever concept for data retrieval.
Support image and text data, including: Postgres tables, external storage, and ad-hoc queries.
Support for building fully custom AI workflows/pipelines.

Description	Addresses
Integrated model runtime
Support for external models with OpenAI API
Secure management of API credentials vie postgres "user mapping" feature Improved from the tech preview which had no secure credential management.
Model registry that allows configuring internal/external models A new concept in Pipelines over the tech preview which had only retrievers.
pgfs/volumes allows working with external data from S3 object stores and file systems The tech preview could only work with S3 in retrievers. Now, the volume concept allows working with external data in general.
Low-level primitives for models: encode, transform for image and text data
Enhanced retriever concept for data retrieval
Support image and text data Images can be retreieved from From external storage or Postgres tables. Images can also be retrieved from "bytea columns" in Postgres tables Also abot to be retrieved ad-hoc in a query.
Support for building fully custom AI workflows/pipelines direct SQL access to models (encode, transform, …) even allowing batch-execution flexible interfaces in our high-level composite functions (like retrieve) allowing direct access to all low-level interfaces that we use in high-level functions; such as exposing functions like "embed_single_row"

EDB Postgres AI - AI Accelerator 1.0.0 release notes

EDB Postgres AI - AI Accelerator 1.0.0 release notes

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