RAG for LLMs: 5 Truths That Make AI Accurate and Trustworthy
Summary : Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) fixes one of the biggest issues of large language models: stale or hallucinated facts. This blog post explains five practical, surprising truths about RAG—how it updates knowledge without retraining, alternative architectures, prompt requirements, multimodal future, and the ecosystem that makes RAG practical for production. First, view the RAG Explained video. Then read on to learn how to design safer, more reliable LLM applications. Introduction Large language models are powerful but inherently static: their knowledge reflects only what was in their training data. That makes them prone to hallucinations and out-of-date answers. RAG gives an LLM access to current, verifiable information at query time, by retrieving relevant documents and using them to ground its responses. The RAG concept is simple, but the engineering choices and trade-offs are important. Below are five high-impact truths that change how you build and evaluate RAG sys...