Pinecone

Observed profile

Managed vector database for semantic search and AI applications.

As of , AIIStack tracks Pinecone's Momentum score at 37.86/100, up 11.43 points.

Headquarters
Not disclosed
Founded
Founded year not disclosed
Official website
pinecone.io

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Company scorecard

Innovation score
26.43/100
Change
5.71 pts
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Popularity score
26.43/100
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0 pts
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Momentum score
37.86/100
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11.43 pts
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Activity timeline

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Mention spike
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6 new attributable Hacker News discussions were observed in the last seven days.

GitHub release
Notable

pinecone-io/python-sdk released Release v10.0.0

Mention spike
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4 new attributable Hacker News discussions were observed in the last seven days.

Mention spike
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9 new attributable Hacker News discussions were observed in the last seven days.

Mention spike
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6 new attributable Hacker News discussions were observed in the last seven days.

Discussion intelligence

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

Location: La Center, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP, LangSmith, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, pgvector, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, React, Next.js, TypeScript Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14kqCgJxs-QWIulcaal3VkDug5_R... Email: benjaminkruger1023@gmail.com Summary: Senior AI Engineer with 9+ years of software engineering experience, specializing in Generative AI, LLM applications, RAG, and AI agents. I’ve built and deployed production AI systems using Python, FastAPI, LangGraph, LangSmith, MCP, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and cloud-native microservices. My recent wo…

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

Location: Linden, TN Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C#, RAG, Generative AI, LLM Integration, AI Agents, Vector Search, Semantic Search, Hybrid Search, Embeddings, Prompt Engineering, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Gemini, Azure AI Search, LangChain, LangGraph, Pinecone, MLflow, React, Next.js, FastAPI, Spring Boot, ASP.NET Core, Node.js, REST APIs, GraphQL, Microservices, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, CI/CD, Prometheus Résumé/CV: https://forwardlogical.com/ Email: alexbbates4179@gmail.com

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

Location: Billerica, MA, USA Remote: Yes (Open to U.S. remote opportunities) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, Go, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, FastAPI, Flask, Django, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, C#, .NET, SQL, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, AutoGen, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, RAG, Vector Databases, Pinecone, n8n, Deepgram, LiveKit, Prompt Engineering Resume/CV: https://www.chrisouza.online/resume/ Email: christopherlitobu@gmail.com Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, AI-powered applications, and cloud-native platforms. I specialize in AI agent orchestration, distributed systems, cloud architecture, and full-sta…

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

Location: Cape Girardeau, MO, USA (CST) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, React, LangGraph, RAG, Chroma, Pinecone, pgvector, PostgreSQL, Redis Streams, Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini APIs, MCP, LLM-as-judge evals, AWS Lambda + Bedrock, Docker, GitHub Actions Résumé/CV: https://sjtroxel.github.io Email: sjtroxel@protonmail.com --- I'm basically self-taught / career-changer. Everything I have built is deployed and clickable — no private repos, nothing "available on request." Most of my time goes into making sure the system does not confidently make something up. In Patchwork Assurance ( https://patchworkassurance.com ), a compliance tool for US AI-regulation law, the decision about which laws apply to a company is…

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

Location: Fort Myers, FL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, FastAPI, LLMs, Generative AI, RAG, AI Agents, LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Vector Databases, Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, PyTorch, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Terraform, React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EEGGnk9IxTkRLF4-JgfDkESL3Oe... Email: jzachariah940@gmail.com Summary: Senior AI Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and deploying production AI and full-stack applications. Strong focus on Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, multimodal AI, and real-time conversational systems. I have hands-on experience building production RAG pipelines, AI agents, voice AI systems, LLM applications, and sca…

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Documented relationships

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Competitive context

Pinecone alternatives and competitors to monitor

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Momentum score
95/100
Score change
28.57

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Popularity score
72.14/100
Score change
0