Retrieval-Augmented Generation

also referred to as: rag

5 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 14, 2025 by Ethan Smith · across every show →

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Sep 14, 2025 negative
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Smith: Feeding AI derivatives into RAG collapses output diversity into single opinions
“If you feed in derivatives of derivatives into the model, you will basically take the wisdom of the crowd and that will shrink and you'll have a single opinion on everything, which is really bad.”
Ethan Smith Sep 14, 2025 ▶ 58:07 The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Sep 14, 2025 neutral
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Smith: LLMs will not recommend products absent from RAG search results
“And I think also the LLM is, is probably not going to say your product if it didn't show up anywhere on the RAG. So I think that's where most of the interesting stuff is for, from an optimization perspective.”
Ethan Smith Sep 14, 2025 ▶ 21:18 The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Sep 14, 2025 neutral
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Smith: Influencing LLM core pre-trained models takes a year
“Most of what I'm describing is about the RAG piece, not the core model piece to influence the core model is probably extremely hard. And maybe you will see the impact a year later.”
Ethan Smith Sep 14, 2025 ▶ 20:52 The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Oct 9, 2025
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Off-the-shelf RAG limitations force enterprises to do internal data labeling
“We're starting to see the labeling move into enterprises and into governments because you can only get so far with off the shelf plus rag, plus some fine tuning based on recorded data.”
Jason Droege Oct 9, 2025 ▶ 25:55 Scale AI CEO on Meta’s $14B deal, scaling Uber Eats to $80B, & what frontier labs are building next
Oct 23, 2025
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Huyen: Data preparation drives bigger RAG gains than database choice
“Data preparations for Rack is extremely important. And I would say that's like in the, a lot of the companies that I have seen, that's like the biggest performance in their Rack solutions coming from like better data, data preparations, not agonizing over like…”
Chip Huyen Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 34:33 Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
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