Retrieval-Augmented Generation

also referred to as: rag · retrieval augmented generation

5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Apr 30, 2024 by Marty Chavez · across every show →

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Apr 30, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Million-token context windows will make hard RAG problems easy within months
“And I think over the next few months, you're going to see a lot of those changes, problems that were really hard are going to become really easy.”
Marty Chavez Apr 30, 2024 ▶ 27:26 Marty Chavez (Sixth Street): Finding a Single Source of AI Truth
Feb 28, 2025
Insight
Ian Webster: AI jailbreaks let attackers pivot within RAG architectures
“Those are often the gateway to messing around with other stuff, right? Like once, once you punch a hole in the defenses with something like a jailbreak, if it's part of a larger system or architecture, like a rag or agent that would give an attacker a lot of r…”
Ian Webster Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 2:28 How to use DeepSeek safely
May 23, 2025 negative
Insight
Clark: Expanding RAG datasets with historical data degrades search quality
“And so RAG has obviously become very prevalent in a wide variety of industries and people use it for a lot of different things. We've spoken with different firms that they were like, okay, well, I'm just going to continue to add more and more data to the corpu…”
Scott Clark May 23, 2025 ▶ 28:46 Building AI Systems You Can Trust
Jun 10, 2025 negative
Insight
Bhardwaj: RAG alone is insufficient for high-accuracy enterprise data processing
“While drag is good for casual search, you need a complex workflow under the herd that is explainable, that is auditable, that is guaranteed to be accurate and correct, is important for solving many of these enterprise problems.”
Anant Bhardwaj Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 12:00 Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents
Mar 17, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Misra claims he built the first known implementation of RAG using GPT-3
“And I got GPD three to do in context learning, few short learning, and you know, it was kind of the First, at least to me, it was the first known implementation of RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation, which I used to solve this problem of querying, getting GPT…”
Vishal Misra Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 1:20 Why Scale Will Not Solve AGI | Vishal Misra - The a16z Show
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