Dev Ittycheria

Someone asked me today what's the most motivating thing I've ever read. It's this quote: "The definition of hell--on your last day on earth, the person you became met the person you could have become." The most profound regret is not about things you did but about the things you…

We will look back at this time and recognize that DeepSeek was the tipping point on focus moving from training to real-time inference. Cost of intelligence is quickly marching towards zero.

We just launched Voyage-context-3, a new embedding model that gives AI a full-document view while preserving chunk-level precision that offers better retrieval performance than leading alternatives. When building AI that reads and reasons over documents (such as reports,…

I’ve lived in India, Canada, the UK & Nigeria—and traveled the world—but the USA gave my family opportunities we couldn’t find anywhere else. It’s not perfect, but it’s uniquely generous to those who dream big and work hard. So grateful. 🇺🇸 #July4th

The future of software development is agent-native. At MongoDB, we’re already seeing big gains using Factory (powered by @VoyageAI) to accelerate dev workflows and automate tasks. This is just the beginning.

Reminder: Only 14% of US residents are immigrants. But immigrants are responsible for 36% of aggregate innovation. Two-thirds of this contribution is due to making their native-born collaborators better.

INTRODUCING FACTORY Factory is the Command Center where developers and agentic AI collaborate to understand, plan, and build enterprise software. Our enterprise platform combines advanced engineering system indexing, state-of-the-art retrieval and search, and reliable agentic…

1/ Congrats @dittycheria @tengyuma @sahirazam + the @VoyageAI team on their acquisition by @MongoDB today! As a founding investor, @conviction believed that better embedding and re-ranking models were critical to robust AI-powered search/retrieval (a key enterprise AI use case)

AI still has a hallucination problem: How MongoDB aims to solve it with advanced rerankers and embedding models venturebeat.com/ai/ai-still-ha…

We joined @MongoDB! @VoyageAI’s best-in-class embedding models and rerankers will be part of MongoDB’s best-in-class database, powering mission-critical AI applications with high-quality semantic retrieval capability. A huge thank you to everyone with us on this journey, and to…

The risk of hallucinations currently holds enterprises back from deploying AI apps. Excited to share that VoyageAI has joined MongoDB to make high-quality AI-powered search and retrieval easy, enabling organizations to build trustworthy AI apps at scale. mongodb.com/blog/post/rede…

Future founders in NYC 📢 We’re co-hosting a day-long summit this May with @Lux_Capital, @BoxGroup, and @usv to bring together the next generation of tech founders in the city. First Round Partner @hayleybay will speak alongside a stellar roster of NYC-based investors and…

One of the fastest-growing companies in SV runs on MongoDB – @TrustVanta. They’re hiring engineers with MongoDB experience for their core platform team. Reach out to them if interested! jobs.ashbyhq.com/vanta/d3a010a7…

Wasn't it just 3 weeks ago we were all shocked about Deepseek's model, thinking it'd disrupt OpenAI? Now Elon wants to buy them out. Shows you how fast things change in AI - one minute you're being disrupted, the next, you're the prize. #AImovesfast

As inference costs plummet, we will see an explosion of AI apps. But what DB should developers choose? Traditional RDBMS were built for a different era—designed to move data in rigid, structured bits. AI apps work differently, processing large documents and binary objects at…

While PostgreSQL touts JSON support, remember that support doesn't guarantee performance. Performance will plummet when crossing certain thresholds, like the 2KB row size in PostgreSQL. #DatabasePerformance

ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM. Following last weekend's Ivy League Men's Soccer Tournament, 1⃣1⃣ student-athletes were named to the All-Tournament Team, highlighted by @PrincetonMSoc's Daniel Ittycheria, the Most Outstanding Player! 🌿⚽️

Ivy champs!!!

Lack of trust is unquestionably the issue that causes so much division — though fixing this is far easier said than done. We all are far too quick to dismiss data that disconfirms our beliefs.

Earlier this morning I had a chance to talk with @andrewrsorkin about my ten years at MongoDB and what's happening in our industry.