Artificial Intelligence has made massive strides with large language models (LLMs), but one major limitation still exists, they don’t always know the latest or domain-specific information.
This is where Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) comes in — a powerful approach that combines information retrieval with text generation to create smarter, more reliable AI systems.
The user asks a question:
“What are the benefits of microservices architecture?
The system searches a knowledge base (documents, PDFs, vector DB):
The retrieved content is added to the prompt:
Context: [Relevant documents] Question: [User query]
The LLM generates a response using both: