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What Is RAG? A Practical Breakdown of Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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In 2020, a team of Facebook AI researchers published a paper called "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks." That paper gave a name to a problem every team building with language models eventually runs into: a model only knows what it was trained on, and it can't tell you…

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  1. 2026-08-31 16:00 · DEV Community — AI
    What Is RAG? A Practical Breakdown of Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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