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AI Acquisition Wave and How Pinecone Tests Agent Skills Using Claude and Modal

Pinecone16 June 2026Watch on YouTube

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Ep. 5 · Pinecone Nexus: AI Kennismotor

Pinecone presenteert Nexus als kennisengine die enterprise-data omzet in gestructureerde kennis voor betrouwbare AI-agenten.

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What you'll learn

  • Skill Eval is Pinecone's internal tool for building, testing, and grading AI agent skills in sandboxed parallel environments using Claude and Modal.
  • A wave of AI acquisitions occurred, including Anthropic acquiring Stainless, and Mistral and Cohere acquiring vertical AI players.
  • Google IO unveiled Gemini 2.5 Flash with increased speed, Gemini Omni as a world model, and AI Search featuring Gemini Spark.
  • Pinecone's full text search skill is part of the growing platform and enables integration with tools like n8n.
  • Pinecone Marketplace and Nexus Early Access provide new capabilities for building and testing AI agent skills.

Frequently asked questions

What is Skill Eval and how is it used?
Skill Eval is Pinecone's internal tool that enables developers to build, test, and grade AI agent skills in sandboxed parallel environments using Claude and Modal. It allows teams to systematically evaluate agent capabilities.
What were Google's major announcements at IO?
Google presented Gemini 2.5 Flash with improved speed, Gemini Omni as a world model for advanced reasoning, and AI Search with Gemini Spark for intelligent search and smart eyewear integration.
How does Pinecone's new full text search skill integrate with n8n?
Pinecone's full text search skill was used by Jenna Pederson to build a new n8n-Pinecone skill, enabling integration between both platforms for AI agent workflows.
Which AI acquisitions were discussed in the video?
The video covered Anthropic's acquisition of Stainless, Mistral's acquisition of a vertical AI player, and Cohere's acquisition of a vertical AI company, representing a wave of consolidation in the AI industry.

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A lot happened in the last two weeks of AI news and at Pinecone, and Roie, Jenna, and Arjun break it all down. From Karpathy's move to Anthropic and a wave of AI acquisitions to Google IO's biggest announcements, they cover what matters and why. Arjun demos Skill Eval, an internal Pinecone tool for building, testing, and grading agent skills in sandboxed parallel environments using Claude and Modal. He does a live walk-through on the new Pinecone full text search skill and Jenna shares how she used it to build the new n8n-Pinecone skill. They also give updates on Pinecone Nexus Early Access and the Pinecone Marketplace. Resources: 🔗 Pinecone Skills repo: https://github.com/pinecone-io/skills 🔗 Use Pinecone with agentic IDEs and CLIs: https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/get-started/ai-coding-tools 🔗 Pinecone Nexus Early Access: https://www.pinecone.io/lp/nexus-ea/ 🔗 Get started with Pinecone Marketplace: https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/marketplace/quickstart Follow Roie Schwaber-Cohen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roiecohen/ https://twitter.com/RoieSchwabco Follow Arjun Patel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunkirtipatel/ Follow Jenna Pederson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennapederson/ https://twitter.com/jennapederson https://www.instagram.com/jennanerdsout/ Follow Pinecone: https://twitter.com/pinecone https://www.linkedin.com/company/pinecone-io/ https://discord.gg/qwQPPPZ4nz 0:00 Intro and recent AI news roundup 2:00 Anthropic acquires Stainless and shuts it down 7:25 Mistral and Cohere acquisitions, vertical AI plays 11:00 Consulting arms, Code with Claude event, and the adoption gap 16:00 Google IO: Gemini 2.5 Flash speed benchmarks 19:30 Gemini Omni and the world model vision 26:30 AI Search, Gemini Spark, and smart eyewear 38:20 Pinecone Nexus and Marketplace updates 40:20 Live demo: Skill Eval tool for building and testing agent skills #Pinecone #AINews #GoogleIO #Anthropic #AIAgents