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You realize that an index is still necessary for RAG? Where do you think the results used by Perplexity, Open AI etc. come from?
by Palmik 2y ago
You realize that an index is still necessary for RAG?
Where do you think the results used by Perplexity, Open AI etc. come from?
- osmarks 2y agoThere is at least one organization doing actual embedding-based search (Exa). I wrote about this a bit: https://docs.osmarks.net/hypha/osmarks.net_web_search_plan_%28secret%29 https://docs.osmarks.net/hypha/osmarks.net_web_search_plan_%....
- Palmik 2y agoYes, I know Exa and have used them in the past for some side projects. Great product. But that's still an index. Google also internally uses combination of traditional and sematic/embedding based indices.
- silversmith 2y agoThis reminds me of the twitter conversation I saw - someone cheering on the dismantling of US meteorological service, because they have weather apps on their phone.
- guappa 2y agoAll the apps use the norwegian service anyway