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		andai on April 28, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reality Check What are you guys using for RAG? I noticed OpenAI's embeddings struggle a bit with retrieval of specialized material. Is there anything better?

hnhn34 on April 28, 2025 [–]

I haven't used RAG yet, but OpenAI's embeddings are pretty far behind AFAIK. Gemini has the SOTA in embeddings right now.

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