AI case study

KwaiVector search platform

Safety reads and high-volume writes fought for the same nodes. Milvus disaggregates them: 10B+ vectors, latency steady under load.

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Key results

Vectors in Production
10B+
Max Embedding Dimensions
10k+
Alerting SLA
99%

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The story

Context

One of the world's largest short-video and live-streaming platforms, with 400 million daily active users and a sprawling AI stack spanning content safety, video deduplication, semantic search, and generative features, all requiring retrieval of unstructured content by meaning rather than keyword.

Challenge

Their Elasticsearch-based vector layer couldn't separate reads from writes, causing query latency spikes in safety and risk systems exactly when...

Solution
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Scope & timeline

  • 100+ production clusters deployed company-wide
  • Company-wide vector platform built in under a year

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The company

Short-video sharing and live-streaming social platform.

IndustryEntertainment
LocationBeijing, China
Employees10K-50K
Founded2011

The vendor

Vector database platform for building and scaling AI applications.

IndustrySoftware & Platforms
LocationRedwood City, CA, USA
Employees51-250
Founded2017

Use case

Kwai's Vector search platform is part of this use case:

AI Infrastructure
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Proven impact?
Average
2.6Below average
2.6Below averagewithin Product Engineering

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