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     * What is Vectara?Modern, LLM-powered search platform
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3/27 Event Replay:  *** Why RAG Will Never Die – The Context Window Myth” *** 
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THE TRUSTED GENAI PLATFORM
FOR ALL BUILDERS.

RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION-AS-A-SERVICE (RAGAAS) TO POWER YOUR BUSINESS.

Mitigating Hallucinations and Copyright Concerns, Minimizing Bias, Enhancing
Explainability, and Broadening Cross-Lingual Reach. Your TRUSTED entry point for
GenAI.


*** NEW BOOMERANG LLM: WORLD-CLASS RETRIEVAL PUTS GENAI INTO ACTION ***

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DEEP DIVE INTO RAG ARCHITECTURES

 * On 3/14 our ML team hosted a RAG event at your Palo Alto HQ, where they
   shared key insights and best practices on RAG architectures. Watch the REPLAY
   and you’ll:
   * Learn about advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) topics like
     calibration and MRR
   * See live demos of the Hughes Hallucination Evaluation Model (HHEM) for
     evaluating how likely an LLM is to hallucinate
   * Go deep into RAG, including dual-encoders vs. cross-encoders & UI trends 
   * Explore user-friendly interfaces for your GenAI in React
 * (Note: Audio volume normalizes at 06:40, when our first speaker Forrest
   begins his talk)

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THE GENAI PRODUCT PLATFORM

VECTARA PROVIDES A TRUSTED GENERATIVE AI PLATFORM. THE PLATFORM ALLOWS
ORGANIZATIONS TO RAPIDLY CREATE A CHATGPT-LIKE EXPERIENCE (AN AI ASSISTANT)
WHICH IS GROUNDED IN THE DATA, DOCUMENTS, AND KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY HAVE. OUR
SERVERLESS RAG-AS-A-SERVICE ALSO SOLVES CRITICAL PROBLEMS REQUIRED FOR
ENTERPRISE ADOPTION, NAMELY: REDUCES HALLUCINATION, PROVIDES EXPLAINABILITY /
PROVENANCE, ENFORCES ACCESS CONTROL, ALLOWS FOR REAL-TIME UPDATABILITY OF THE
KNOWLEDGE, AND MITIGATES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY / BIAS CONCERNS FROM LARGE
LANGUAGE MODELS.



EXTRACT

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CommonMark, and many more.



ENCODE

Encode at scale with cutting edge zero-shot models using deep neural networks
optimized for language understanding.

INDEX

Segment data into any number of indexes storing vector encodings optimized for
low latency and high recall.

RETRIEVE

Recall candidate results from millions of documents using cutting-edge,
zero-shot neural network models.

RERANK

Increase the precision of retrieved results with cross-attentional neural
networks to merge and reorder results.

SUMMARIZE

Optionally generate a natural language summary of the top results for Q&A or
conversational AI experiences.

EXTRACT

Vectara automatically extracts text from PDF and Office to JSON, HTML, XML,
CommonMark, and many more.

ENCODE

Encode at scale with cutting edge zero-shot models using deep neural networks
optimized for language understanding.

INDEX

Segment data into any number of indexes storing vector encodings optimized for
low latency and high recall.

RETRIEVE

Recall candidate results from millions of documents using cutting-edge,
zero-shot neural network models.

RERANK

Increase the precision of retrieved results with cross-attentional neural
networks to merge and reorder results.

SUMMARIZE

Optionally generate a natural language summary of the top results for Q&A or
conversational AI experiences.



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END-TO-END GENAI PLATFORM


GET WISE ON YOUR DATA WITH RAG-AS-A-SERVICE

Some LLMs train their models on your data. Some hallucinate when they don’t know
the answers to your questions. And some lexical searches provide more relevant
answers than solely semantic searches. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
remedies all of this.
Our summarization is grounded in the facts retrieved from the indexed data. This
means that we significantly reduce the probability of hallucination during the
summarization stage; we provide an answer which is concise and sound based on
the intended meaning vs. rephrasing the underlying data. With Vectara’s RAGaaS
you can ensure your results are in context and hallucination free.

Learn More About RAG


SIMPLE APIS FOR BUILDERS


POWERFUL CUSTOMIZATION FOR DEVELOPERS

Vectara is a modern, API-first search platform. Developer-friendly and easily
accessible, all Vectara APIs are designed for consumption by application
developers and data engineers who want to embed powerful generative AI into
their site or application. LLMs are increasingly complex and become more complex
when leveraging more than one in a pipeline or end-solution. Vectara removes the
barrier to entry with a trusted entry point by allowing users to operate its
platform without having to have deep technical knowledge of operating and
hosting multiple LLMs. Vectara APIs abstract away the underlying complexity of
operating GenAI solution.

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FIND THE ANSWERS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR WITH LLM-POWERED HYBRID SEARCH

The way people search is changing. They ask questions. They use shorthand. They
make typos. They use voice to search. Today, users ask big questions and expect
amazing results, immediately. Vectara radically changes how developers build
conversational AI. Developers who use Vectara do not need to address the
complexity of human language from plurals, verb tenses, idioms, synonym lists,
pragmatics and language packs to deliver incredibly relevant results. Users ask.
Vectara answers.

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VECTARA OVERVIEW [PDF]

Vectara’s GenAI platform allows businesses to add hybrid search, Retrieval
Augmented Generation (RAG), and conversational AI capabilities to their
applications. This powerful end-to-end platform is exposed to developers via
simple APIs, so the cost and implementation time remain surprisingly low.

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     * Glossary of LLM TermsMaster understanding, to master GenAI
     * Use Cases, e-Books & GuidesExplore ways to use LLM-powered search
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DR. AMR AWADALLAH

CO-FOUNDER & CEO








Prior to founding Vectara, Amr served as the VP of Developer Relations for
Google Cloud. Amr co-founded Cloudera where he led the development of enterprise
tools to ingest and extract value from big data. Before Cloudera, Amr served as
VP of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo after Yahoo acquired his first
startup Aptiva, a search engine company. Amr holds a PhD in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford University and a MA from Cairo University.

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AMIN AHMAD

CO-FOUNDER & CTO





Prior to founding Vectara, Amin served as a senior engineer at Google Research
for 10 years. Amin led the development of question answering and neural
information retrieval systems that have been launched into several Google
products. His 20 years of search industry experience include working with
Fortune 500 companies, startups, and state and federal governments. Amin holds a
BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Bowling Green State University.

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