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nquille

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Nquille built Turbo Puffer, a vector search engine on object storage powering retrieval for Cursor, Notion, Anthropic and other AI-native companies at 10x lower cost.

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Turbo Puffer's object-storage search cuts cost 10x but still too expensive for new products

By layering caching on S3/GCS, Turbo Puffer delivers near-RAM vector search performance at object-storage economics, powering Cursor, Notion and Anthropic; further 10x cost drops would unlock entirely new agentic product categories.

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HIGHnquille·Sourcery VC·2 months ago·SemiAnalysis, Altimeter, Nebius, Glean.. 12 Hot Takes From Biggest Names in AI· position
Turbo Puffer's object-storage search cuts cost 10x but still too expensive for new products
By layering caching on S3/GCS, Turbo Puffer delivers near-RAM vector search performance at object-storage economics, powering Cursor, Notion and Anthropic; further 10x cost drops would unlock entirely new agentic product categories.
"So the reason that this is viable at all the reason folks are able to do vector search over the entire web on turbuffer is because we're based on object storage. So that's S3 or G…"
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Search cost remains primary blocker for agentic products; 10x cheaper retrieval unlocks new categories
Turbo Puffer demonstrates that object-storage vector search at 1/10th current cost enables Cursor, Notion, Anthropic workloads; another 10x drop would make previously uneconomic agent products viable.