Simon Willison’s Weblog

I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension. Alex Garcia is working on sqlite-vec, a spiritual successor to his sqlite-vss project. The new SQLite C extension will have zero other dependencies (sqlite-vss used some tricky C++ libraries) and will work using virtual tables, storing chunks of vectors in shadow tables to avoid needing to load everything into memory at once.

# 3rd May 2024, 3:16 am / c, sqlite, vectors, alex-garcia, embeddings

VectorMagic. Neat online tool (with a Flex frontend) for tracing bitmap images in to vectors, based on research at the Stanford AI lab.

# 28th October 2007, 11:46 am / flash, flex, graphics, images, stanford, vectormagic, vectors