
An open-source embedding database for developers to build Python or LLM apps with memory.
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Context-1, an open-weights model from Chroma, is trained with SFT and RL, and is competitive with frontier models at search, while being 10x faster and 25x cheaper.
The open-source search infrastructure for AI. Fast, serverless, and scalable — supporting vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search.
Chroma Cloud provides serverless data ingestion from S3 buckets, GitHub repositories, and websites, and handles parsing, chunking, and embedding.
The company pays people to build open-source AI apps.
Chroma announced release v0.4.
AI Is Not Boring created Anton Teaches Packy to make AI more accessible to its audience and explain how it works.
Chroma helped run a ChatGPT plugins hackathon on April 8 and 9, with about 100 participants and 36 teams demoing.
Chroma raised an $18 million seed round led by Astasia Myers of Quiet Capital, with participation from angels including Naval Ravikant, Max and Jack Altman, and others.
The company is hiring its first dedicated seller to build revenue and work directly with the founders.
Join Chroma and help build the data & search infrastructure for AI. View open roles in Engineering, Design, and Sales in San Francisco.
Research, design, implement and verify elements of Chroma's storage engine.
The role involves building reliable, scalable, and performant distributed systems for Chroma's data plane.
Open-source search infrastructure for AI
A maximum-severity vulnerability in ChromaDB enables attackers to hijack servers running the software. The vector database powers many AI applications.
May 2026 · BleepingComputerNews article
A critical unpatched vulnerability in ChromaDB, an open-source vector database used by AI applications, could allow remote attackers to take over affected servers.
May 2026 · SecurityWeekNews article
Chroma makes Chroma Cloud databases available in the EU, adding GCP europe-west1 alongside the existing AWS us-east-1 region. The EU region offers full API parity, reduced latency for European users, and data residency for compliance. It is available across all Chroma Cloud plans, while Chroma Sync is not yet available in europe-west1.
Apr 2026 · ChromaNews article
Chroma publishes Context-1, a research benchmark evaluating long-context retrieval capabilities for vector databases and embedding models.
Mar 2026 · ChromaNews article