Zilliz, the company behind the Milvus project, specializes in vector databases that store embedding vectors for semantic retrieval of unstructured data. Milvus, an open-source project since 2019, aims to simplify the management and deployment of vector databases with scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency at its core. Various deployment options are available, including self-managed and fully-managed cloud services, targeting companies at different growth stages in their AI development lifecycle.