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RAG and retrieval
Retrieval-augmented generation grounds a model's answers in your own documents. We write about retrieval that cites its source and says when it does not know, and the failure modes that quietly break it.
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RAG that cites its source and says when it does not know
A knowledge assistant earns trust with two behaviors no model provides by default: every answer carries a citation that resolves to the exact passage it rests on, and a question the corpus cannot answer gets a plain refusal instead of a fluent guess.