On September 8, 2025, Pinecone (a vector database platform for artificial intelligence) announced changes to its senior management, with CEO Edo Liberty stepping down and taking on the role of Chief Scientist, and Ash Ashutosh, a former Google executive, taking over as the new CEO. The move aims to strengthen the leadership's focus on research and technical innovation with global commercial expansion, especially with the growing demand for vector databases to efficiently manage information retrieval from massive models. Since its founding in 2019, Pinecone has become a major player in the sector, used by major tech companies to build products based on knowledge retrieval. Specific details of the new leadership's short- and medium-term strategy were not disclosed, leaving some ambiguity about the company's operational direction.
Pinecone (a vector database platform) changes its executive leadership.
