2025
MongoDB acquired Voyage AI, an embedding model company, in 2025.
“we purchased Voyage in 2025, which created this better together story”
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Voyage AI
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2025
Host Nathan put the price of MongoDB's Voyage AI acquisition at about $220 million.
“the price, at even at 220 million, which is, I'm old enough to remember when that was serious money”
2026
Pete Johnson said Voyage released version three of contextualized chunking last summer and version four in the six weeks before the recording.
“we released version three of that last summer. We just released four of that in the last six weeks”
2026
Pete Johnson said Anthropic has no embedding model of its own and recommends MongoDB's Voyage models.
“Anthropic does not have an embedding model in market. They recommend us.”
2026
Pete Johnson said Voyage 4 includes a free, open-weight 'nano' embedding model that can be downloaded from Hugging Face.
“But we also introduced something called the nano, which is open weight and free for anybody to download in off of Hugging Space”
Undated
Pete Johnson said embedding vectors typically have from 256 to as many as 2048 dimensions.
“you tend to have at least 256 dimensions and sometimes as high as 2048”
Undated
Pete Johnson said Voyage AI models typically rank at the top of a Hugging Face embedding benchmark, which the transcript calls RTab.
“Hugging Face has a benchmark out there called RTab, that Voyage AI models are typically at the top of”
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