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RAG Explained: How AI Answers Questions Using Your Own Data
Community description: Learn how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) works, why LLMs need external knowledge, and how document retrieval, embeddings, and vector search help AI generate more relevant answers.
Dev.to | Oct 13, 2026 | VIKAS
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Retrieval: Finding relevant information from an external knowledge source. RAG = Retrieve relevant information + Give it to an LLM + Generate an answer. Retrieve relevant information for each query.
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