OpenAI Assistant vs RAG Part 1: Significant Limitations and Possibilities
Last Updated on November 21, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Ryan Nguyen
Originally published on Towards AI.
Too soon to say Open AI kills the entire RAG and API-oriented app. Given a few iterations, they may get there. Eventually? Or will they?
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“Bigger, smarter, faster, cheaper, easier.” Isn’t that what we all want?
When I read the OpenAI dev announcement, I had two thoughts.
This is the dream. My dev work with AI is getting easier and better than ever. If all the promises are true, I’m ready to vendor lock in with OpenAI. I dreamt about the day when developing RAG is getting easier, especially at the scale speed and performance level. I cannot wait to try the new API with big documents full of tables. The disappointment quickly came after as I used it with a naive approach, but that will… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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