[HN Gopher] Canopy is an open-source Retrieval Augmented Generat...
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       Canopy is an open-source Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
       framework
        
       Author : mooreds
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-12-07 17:00 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | chkelly9 wrote:
       | Curious why Pinecone would invest in building their own RAG
       | framework, esp given how quickly the space is moving. Curious how
       | others here feel about this. Will RAG frameworks still be
       | necessary in the same way, say ... 6 months to a year down the
       | line?
        
         | erhserhdfd wrote:
         | Pinecone is in a tough spot. A huge number of database vendors
         | are implementing vector functionality into their products,
         | which risks the niche that Pinecone is attempting to carve out
         | for their business. They are probably trying to gain adoption
         | of their database by developing an open source RAG framework
         | that leverages their database and gives companies a solution to
         | quickly implement RAG in their specific applications.
         | 
         | Regarding whether RAG will still be required in the future,
         | this is a good question. Increasing context window sizes may
         | render this moot or much less important. However, there are
         | still cost and performance implications of a RAG architecture
         | for many use cases.
        
       | darkteflon wrote:
       | Weaviate did something similar recently with Verba[1], which
       | feels like it still needs some time in the oven. Will definitely
       | check this out, if only to see how people in this space are
       | approaching some of the fundamentals.
       | 
       | https://github.com/weaviate/Verba
        
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