Moving Beyond RAG with Precomputed Context

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Sep 3, 202655:48Technology

Retrieval has become one of the central problems in building useful AI systems. The standard approach to grounding a model in one’s own data has been retrieval augmented generation, or RAG, where an agent searches...

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