Building Production-Grade RAG at Scale

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica
Building Production-Grade RAG at Scale
Jun 26, 2025
Ben Lorica

Douwe Kiela, Founder and CEO of Contextual AI, discusses why RAG isn鈥檛 obsolete despite massive context windows, explaining how RAG 2.0 represents a fundamental shift to treating retrieval-augmented generation as an end-to-end trainable system. 

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