retrieval

4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 27, 2024 by Shawn Wang · across every show →

Everything said about retrieval, oldest first

Apr 27, 2024 negative
Opinion
Swyx: Enterprise ChatGPT implementations are just retrieval, not generative AI
“That is what people think generative AI is, but it's not super generative, really, it's just retrieval.”
Shawn Wang Apr 27, 2024 ▶ 1:40:33 This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
Dec 23, 2024 positive
Opinion
Soldani: Local models beat closed models in retrieval applications
“There are some applications where local models just blow closed models out of the water. So, like, retrieval is a very clear example.”
Luca Soldani Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 3:32 Best of 2024: Open Models [LS LIVE! at NeurIPS 2024]
May 29, 2025 neutral
Insight
Massive context windows will not eliminate the need for RAG retrieval
“Like if you do have billion token context window model, you throw it all in there. It's still gonna be more expensive. The reason why retrieval is so important for us is because even if there is a model that's going to have these larger context windows, and ce…”
Matan Grinberg May 29, 2025 ▶ 35:43 The AI Coding Factory
Mar 9, 2026 bearish
Insight
Shah: Pure retrieval AI memory fails on non-literal questions
“Traditionally you have this retrieval thing that happens. So you get a question, you retrieve something, and an answer is generated based on that. But we think that it will not work for most non-literal questions, like find the best monitor for me. If I've nev…”
Dhravya Shah Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 19:24 ⚡️ OpenClaw's Memory Sucks and the fix is simple — Dhravya Shah, Supermemory
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