SQL Server 2025 RC1: faster DiskANN and FP16 support

We’re excited to announce major improvements to DiskANN in SQL Server 2025 RC1, making vector search faster, more scalable, and more storage-efficient than ever before. ⚡ Significantly Faster Index Builds Building DiskANN indexes is now considerably faster, thanks to optimizations that better utilize all available CPU cores and improve the efficiency of vector space traversal. […]

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