Knowledge-Bases Release Notes

Validated on 28 Apr 2026

April 2026

28 April

• The following Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) embeddings model is now available in Data Services for DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases:

  • BGE M3

  For more information, see the Available Models page.

• The following Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) reranking model is now available in Data Services for DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases:

  • BGE Reranker (v2) M3

  For more information, see the Available Models page.

• The following IntFloat embeddings model is now available in Data Services for DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases:

  • E5 Large (multilingual)
  • E5 Large (v2)

  For more information, see the Available Models page.

• RAG Playground is now available in DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases. It lets you run queries against a knowledge base and test how a serverless inference model generates answers from retrieved content.

  For more information, see the Data Services Features page.

• Data Services now supports reranking for DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases to improve the relevance of retrieved results before they’re returned or used in generated responses. For more information, see Create Knowledge Bases and Test Knowledge Bases.

• Data Services now lets you retrieve data from DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases using the Control Panel with semantic, keyword, or hybrid searches, apply filters, review retrieved chunks, and copy live code examples. For more information, see Test Knowledge Bases.

• DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases are now in General Availability in Data Services. Using knowledge bases, you can store, index, and retrieve data for AI applications.

• DigitalOcean Knowledge Base retrieval is now available through a DigitalOcean MCP server.