MongoDB, Inc., the leading database for modern applications, has announced the acquisition of Voyage AI, a pioneer in embedding and reranking models that power next-generation AI applications. This acquisition aims to integrate Voyage AI’s technology with MongoDB, enabling organizations to build trustworthy, AI-powered applications with highly accurate and relevant information retrieval deeply embedded within operational data.
Addressing AI Hallucinations with High-Quality Retrieval
AI-powered applications can tackle complex use cases that traditional software cannot, yet probabilistic AI models can sometimes generate misleading or false information, a phenomenon known as hallucination. This poses risks in mission-critical domains such as:
- Healthcare – AI-assisted cancer screenings
- Finance – Autonomous investment decisions
- Legal – AI-driven legal analysis
These risks arise when AI models lack sufficient understanding or context of enterprise data. To prevent hallucinations, high-quality information retrieval is essential—ensuring that relevant, domain-specific data is extracted with precision.
Voyage AI’s Advanced Retrieval Technology
Voyage AI’s embedding and reranking models provide powerful retrieval capabilities for unstructured data, including:
- Legal and financial documents
- Enterprise knowledge bases
- Code and images
Voyage AI’s models are trusted by AI leaders such as Anthropic, LangChain, Harvey, and Replit. Their embedding models rank as the highest-rated zero-shot models in the Hugging Face community. The team’s deep AI research expertise—rooted in Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, and Princeton—positions MongoDB to enhance AI-powered search and retrieval capabilities for enterprise applications.
Leadership Insights
“AI has the promise to transform every business, but adoption is held back by the risk of hallucinations,” said Dev Ittycheria, CEO of MongoDB. “By bringing the power of advanced AI-powered search and retrieval to our highly flexible database, the combination of MongoDB and Voyage AI enables enterprises to easily build trustworthy AI-powered applications that drive meaningful business impact. With this acquisition, MongoDB is redefining what’s required of the database for the AI era.”
Tengyu Ma, Founder of Voyage AI, added: “For AI applications to reach their full potential, businesses must trust their outputs, so retrieval needs to be deeply integrated with operational data to be accurate and relevant. Joining MongoDB enables us to bring our cutting-edge AI retrieval technology to a broader audience and integrate it seamlessly into mission-critical applications. By combining our expertise in embeddings and reranking with MongoDB’s best-in-class database, we can help organizations build AI applications that deliver more accurate and reliable results at scale, empowering them to confidently apply AI to high-stakes use cases.”
Enhancing MongoDB’s AI Capabilities for the Future
With this acquisition, MongoDB expands its AI capabilities, positioning itself as the go-to database for AI applications that require scalable, high-quality retrieval. By combining Voyage AI’s expertise in embeddings and reranking models with MongoDB’s operational database, enterprises can build more reliable and impactful AI applications at scale.
