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 ## What is Milvus
 
-Milvus is the world's fastest similarity search engine for massive-scale feature vectors. Built with heterogeneous computing architecture for the best cost efficiency. Searches over billion-scale vectors take only milliseconds with minimum computing resources.
+Milvus is a high performance vector similarity search system. Built with heterogeneous computing architecture for the best cost efficiency. Searches over billion-scale vectors take only milliseconds with minimum computing resources.
 
 For more detailed introduction of Milvus and its architecture, see [Milvus overview](https://www.milvus.io/docs/about_milvus/overview.md).