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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Zilliz, the company behind the leading open-source vector database Milvus, today announced the open-source release of its Bilingual Semantic Highlighting Model, an industry-first AI model designed to dramatically reduce token usage and improve answer quality in production RAG-powered AI applications.
This highlighting model introduces sentence-level relevance filtering, enabling AI developers to remove low-signal context before sending prompts to large language models. This approach directly addresses rising inference costs and accuracy issues caused by oversized context windows in enterprise RAG and RAG-powered AI deployments.
"As RAG systems move into production, teams are running into very real cost and quality limits," said James Luan, VP of Engineering at Zilliz. "This model gives developers a practical way to reduce prompt size and improve answer accuracy without reworking their existing pipelines."
Key Innovations and Technical Breakthroughs
- Bilingual relevance by design: Optimized for both English and Chinese, the model addresses cross-lingual relevance challenges common in global RAG deployments. It is built on the MiniCPM-2B architecture, enabling low-latency, production-ready performance.
- Sentence-level context filtering: Rather than scoring entire document chunks, the model evaluates relevance at the sentence level and retains only content that directly supports a user query before sending it to the LLM.
- Lower token usage, higher answer quality: Zilliz reports that sentence-level filtering significantly compresses prompt size while improving downstream response quality, helping teams reduce inference costs and improve generation speed in production environments.
Availability
The Bilingual Semantic Highlighting Model is available today as an open-source release. To learn more about the training methodology and performance benchmarks, visit the Zilliz Technical Blog.
Download: : zilliz/semantic-highlight-bilingual-v1
About Zilliz
Zilliz is the company behind Milvus, the world's most widely adopted open-source vector database. Zilliz Cloud brings that performance to production with a fully managed, cloud-native platform built for scalable, low-latency vector search and hybrid retrieval. It supports billion-scale workloads with sub-10ms latency, auto-scaling, and optimized indexes for GenAI use cases like semantic search and RAG.
Zilliz is built to make AI not just possible—but practical. With a focus on performance and cost-efficiency, it helps engineering teams move from prototype to production without overprovisioning or complex infrastructure. Over 10,000 organizations worldwide rely on Zilliz to build intelligent applications at scale.
Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Zilliz is backed by leading investors, including Aramco's Prosperity 7 Ventures, Temasek's Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, Yunqi Partners, Trustbridge Partners, and others. Learn more at Zilliz.com.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Zilliz, the company behind the leading open-source vector database Milvus, today announced the open-source release of its Bilingual Semantic Highlighting Model, an industry-first AI model designed to dramatically reduce token usage and improve answer quality in production RAG-powered AI applications.
This highlighting model introduces sentence-level relevance filtering, enabling AI developers to remove low-signal context before sending prompts to large language models. This approach directly addresses rising inference costs and accuracy issues caused by oversized context windows in enterprise RAG and RAG-powered AI deployments.
"As RAG systems move into production, teams are running into very real cost and quality limits," said James Luan, VP of Engineering at Zilliz. "This model gives developers a practical way to reduce prompt size and improve answer accuracy without reworking their existing pipelines."
Key Innovations and Technical Breakthroughs
- Bilingual relevance by design: Optimized for both English and Chinese, the model addresses cross-lingual relevance challenges common in global RAG deployments. It is built on the MiniCPM-2B architecture, enabling low-latency, production-ready performance.
- Sentence-level context filtering: Rather than scoring entire document chunks, the model evaluates relevance at the sentence level and retains only content that directly supports a user query before sending it to the LLM.
- Lower token usage, higher answer quality: Zilliz reports that sentence-level filtering significantly compresses prompt size while improving downstream response quality, helping teams reduce inference costs and improve generation speed in production environments.
Availability
The Bilingual Semantic Highlighting Model is available today as an open-source release. To learn more about the training methodology and performance benchmarks, visit the Zilliz Technical Blog.
Download: : zilliz/semantic-highlight-bilingual-v1
About Zilliz
Zilliz is the company behind Milvus, the world's most widely adopted open-source vector database. Zilliz Cloud brings that performance to production with a fully managed, cloud-native platform built for scalable, low-latency vector search and hybrid retrieval. It supports billion-scale workloads with sub-10ms latency, auto-scaling, and optimized indexes for GenAI use cases like semantic search and RAG.
Zilliz is built to make AI not just possible—but practical. With a focus on performance and cost-efficiency, it helps engineering teams move from prototype to production without overprovisioning or complex infrastructure. Over 10,000 organizations worldwide rely on Zilliz to build intelligent applications at scale.
Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Zilliz is backed by leading investors, including Aramco's Prosperity 7 Ventures, Temasek's Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, Yunqi Partners, Trustbridge Partners, and others. Learn more at Zilliz.com.
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Zilliz Open Sources Industry-First Bilingual "Semantic Highlighting" Model to Slash RAG Token Costs and Boost Accuracy
MONROE, N.J. and RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., May 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MimiSilk, the clinical-grade at-home beauty device brand, launched its 2026 Mother's Day campaign, offering a limited-time promotion across its full product collection. The campaign aims to provide consumers with accessible, professional skincare solutions as a gifting choice for the holiday, offering mothers a way to experience medical-grade skin rejuvenation from the comfort of home.
About MimiSilk: Silk Your Skin, Love Your Glow
MimiSilk was founded on a clear mission: to make clinical-grade skincare part of everyday life — offering an effective standalone solution for those seeking skin rejuvenation at home, and a powerful complement to in-clinic treatments for long-term maintenance and lasting results. Its devices are designed to be safe, accessible, and built into daily life – supporting women in building consistent self-care habits that help soften visible signs of aging, restore a natural inner glow, and achieve a texture as smooth as silk. At the core of the brand is a simple belief: beauty is about confidence, control, and taking time to care for yourself.
MimiSilk Iris: Multi-Benefit Anti-Aging in One Device
The flagship product of this season's campaign is the MimiSilk Iris, a non-ablative fractional laser device for at-home use. Operating at a clinically proven 1450 nm wavelength, Iris stimulates natural collagen production to address the appearance of wrinkles, refine pore visibility, and improve overall skin radiance. The device is non-invasive and requires no recovery downtime, making it compatible with a standard nightly skincare routine.
A Limited-Time Mother's Day 2026 Offer
The Mother's Day promotion is available across MimiSilk's collection, catering to both individual consumers and gift shoppers, making it a practical gifting choice for those looking to offer a practical, results-oriented skincare solution.
MimiSilk believes skincare can be more than a beauty step — it can be a meaningful part of how women feel refreshed, confident, and cared for in daily life. A few focused moments each week can become a quiet ritual of restoration and self-care. This Mother's Day and beyond, the brand hopes mothers everywhere feel seen, appreciated, and beautifully radiant.
Further details on the campaign and products are available on the MimiSilk official website.
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MimiSilk Celebrates Mother's Day 2026: The Gift of Skin Confidence
