Redpanda Adds AI Integrations, expands Cloud Availability, and Unveils Vision for R1: the Multimodal Streaming Data Engine

Expanded connectivity and cloud availability simplifies building data-intensive applications for AI and analytics.

September 12, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO – Sept. 12 – Redpanda, the all-in-one streaming data platform, announced new bolstered AI integrations available within Redpanda Connect. It now offers more than 100 cloud-based managed connectors and stream processors, including connectors for AI services like OpenAI, Vertex AI, and AWS Bedrock, a Sovereign AI connector for Ollama, and connectors for vector databases like Pinecone and Qdrant. Redpanda Connect also now offers GPU clusters on GCP for high-performance AI workloads. The new AI connectors are available on all major cloud providers: AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure. 

“Redpanda has consistently exceeded our expectations,” said Arya Ketan, Senior Principal Engineer at ShareChat. “As a long-time user of Redpanda Connect from before it was acquired earlier this year, we are incredibly excited about the new capabilities and value Redpanda has added in such a short time. Redpanda was already saving us millions of USD annually, but bringing these connectors to the cloud will save our data teams significantly in time and resources by ensuring an instant and seamless experience.” 

This launch also unveiled the vision for a single unified engine called Redpanda R1, a multimodal streaming engine with flexible topics that can meet the diverse latency, storage, durability, and security access requirements of today’s streaming data applications.

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