Lantern was founded with the mission to simplify the creation of AI applications using Postgres. The company envisions a future where AI impacts every enterprise across all industries, and aims to empower companies to leverage their unstructured data for better applications. Lantern offers a comprehensive suite of tools through Lantern Cloud, including embedding generation, vector compression, vector search, and efficient indexing, all built on top of the familiar Postgres database.
Notable figures affiliated with Lantern include experienced engineers from leading tech companies like Amazon. The startup has achieved significant milestones, such as making vector index creation 30 times faster than pgvector and offering cost efficiencies compared to competitors like Pinecone. Lantern's innovative approach has had a substantial impact on the AI development landscape, making it easier and more accessible for developers to build high-performance AI applications.
