Lancedb, Which Counts Midjourney As A Customer, Is Building Databases For Multimodal Ai

Chang She and Lei Xu have co-launched LanceDB, an open source database software designed to support multimodal AI models. The software aims to solve problems with traditional data infrastructure that prevent AI models from being brought into production. LanceDB has raised $11 million in funding and is backed by Y Combinator, CRV, Essence VC, and Swift Ventures.