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Pinecone that helped popularise RAG now bets on an alternative
Pinecone, one of the companies that helped pioneer the vector database market supporting retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), is sending a different message around AI agents. The News Stack reported that Pinecone has provided 800,000 developers with chunking, embedding and retrieval methods for RAG over the past four years and unveiled its agent knowledge engine, Nexus, in early May. Pinecone argues RAG is unstable, slow and costly, but faces questions over industry adoption of its KnowQL.
AI & Enterprise
Natural-language database queries too early to trust, experts warn non-specialists should use caution
Database and analytics companies are rolling out text-to-SQL tools that let users query databases in natural language, but experts warn non-specialists should be cautious. Toronto University computer science professor Nick Koudas said systems can generate queries that are grammatically correct but not what business users intended. He put current accuracy at about 80 percent, below human experts at around 93 percent, and said company-specific data and jargon are hard for LLMs without extra training.
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Hancom unveils open-source PDF data extraction tool OpenDataLoader v2.0
Hancom unveiled OpenDataLoader PDF v2.0, an open-source PDF data extraction tool it said achieved top benchmark performance. The release combines AI and direct extraction in a hybrid engine and can be used for free in a local environment to avoid data leakage to external servers. It includes four free AI add-ons for OCR, table extraction, formula extraction and chart analysis. Hancom also published benchmark data and reproducible code on GitHub and switched the licence to Apache 2.0.
