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Title	Author	Published	Words	HN Pts
Introducing Vectara Portal	Deryk DeGuzman & Adeel & Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-08-21	1,067	--
Gen AI Platform Build vs Buy – Part I: Options and Tradeoffs	Justin Hayes	2024-04-24	1,795	--
Sankofa – Your Memory Online	Ofer Mendelevitch & Adeel	2024-01-30	720	19
Automating Hallucination Detection: Introducing the Vectara Factual Consistency Score	Nick Ma	2024-03-26	874	--
RAGTime – A RAG-Powered Bot for Slack and Discord	Adeel	2024-06-25	666	--
Building An LLM-Powered Search Box with Vectara	Ofer Mendelevitch & CJ Cenizal	2023-04-04	1,015	--
Vector Search: What Is Vector Search and How Does it Work?	Tallat Shafaat & Talip Ozturk	2023-08-22	1,933	--
Fine-Tuning vs Retrieval Augmented Generation	Ofer Mendelevitch & Simon Hughes	2023-07-26	1,595	--
Introducing Vectara’s Custom Prompt Engine	Shane Connelly	2024-02-20	1,356	--
Listing Documents in Vectara	Shane Connelly & Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-01-09	546	--
Introducing New UI Tools for Vectara Chat – Create UI and React-chatbot	Nick Ma	2024-02-29	494	--
The First 3 Women at Vectara – Generating and Advancing a Culture …	Felicia Jeffley	2023-06-13	394	--
Deep Dive Into Vectara Multilingual Reranker v1, State-of-the-Art Reranker Across 100+ Languages	Vivek Sourabh & Nick Ma	2024-05-28	2,092	--
How to crawl websites for search	Shane Connelly	2023-02-09	1,015	--
April Fools Prank: New No-hallucinations LLM	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-04-01	641	--
From Keywords to LLMs – The History of Search, and How ChatGPT …	Vivek Sourabh	2023-07-11	1,069	--
Highlights from The AI Conference 2024: Vectara’s Impact and Industry Trends	Miluska Berta & Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-09-17	505	--
React-Search	Deryk DeGuzman & CJ Cenizal	2024-01-18	528	--
Power & Precision: Enhancing Operational GenAI with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Vectara	Bader Hamdan & Ebrahim Alareqi & Justin Hayes	2024-07-29	1,226	--
Cut the Bull…. Detecting Hallucinations in Large Language Models	Simon Hughes	2023-11-06	2,305	--
Large Language Models for Code Generation – Part 2	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-05-18	1,008	--
HHEM v2: A New and Improved Factual Consistency Scoring Model	Forrest Bao & Miaoran Li & Rogger Luo	2024-04-16	1,801	--
New Release: “Grounded Generation”	Shane Connelly & CJ Cenizal	2023-05-30	592	--
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Done Right: Document Stores	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-01-23	1,236	--
Searching Hacker News	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-07-02	621	--
Building GenAI Enterprise Applications with Vectara and Datavolo	Ofer Mendelevitch & Justin Hayes & Alex Ethier & Sam Lachterman & Sean Petrie	2024-04-08	2,844	--
Introducing Boomerang – Vectara’s New and Improved Retrieval Model	Suleman Kazi & Vivek Sourabh	2023-09-26	2,018	--
You’re Not an Engineer. Why Should You Care About RAG?	Miluska Berta	2024-08-29	885	--
HHEM 2.1: A Better Hallucination Detection Model and a New Leaderboard	Ofer Mendelevitch & Forrest Bao & Miaoran Li & Rogger Luo	2024-08-05	1,634	2
Large Language Models Use Cases and Applications	Justin Hayes	2023-03-14	3,253	--
Deep Dive Into Mockingbird: A RAG and Structured Output Focused LLM	Suleman Kazi & Vivek Sourabh & Rogger Luo & Abhilasha Lodha	2024-07-16	1,779	18
User Interfaces for AI Applications	Deryk DeGuzman	2024-03-12	1,333	--
Tackling the Bull: Data Council Assembles the Braintrust to Tackle the Biggest …	Sean Anderson	2024-04-25	1,905	--
How Vectara’s New Boomerang Model Takes Retrieval Augmented Generation to the Next …	Shane Connelly	2023-09-28	1,079	--
Advanced RAG Hackathon	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-05-09	871	--
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Done Right: Chunking	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-09-20	1,791	--
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Done Right: Database Data	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-12-06	2,161	--
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Done Right: Retrieval	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-10-10	2,079	--
Vectara’s new Personal API keys	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-02-28	572	--
Say Hello to Vectara’s “API Playground”	Shane Connelly	2023-03-07	587	--
Building GenAI Applications with Vectara and Unstructured	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-02-22	928	--
Vectara RAG Hackathon	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-12-13	919	--
Not All Chatbots are Created Equal, and Your Decision Could Be Costing …	Shawn Clink	2023-08-24	1,536	--
3 Tips for Startup Recruiting at an AI Company in 2023	Aileen Ajlouni	2023-06-27	817	--
Congratulations to the Winners of the First Ever Built by Vectara Contest	Sean Anderson	2024-06-05	1,058	--
Learning to Measure AI Search with Vectara	Charlie Hull & Matthias Krueger	2023-10-09	1,441	--
Vectara and Airbyte	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-01-17	1,434	--
Researchers and Analysts: Enhancing Knowledge and Insights with GenAI-powered Answers	Nidal Zoghbi	2023-09-12	1,161	--
Correcting Hallucinations in Large Language Models	Utkarsh Jain & Suleman Kazi & Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-09-03	2,162	11
The Great Search Disruption	Ofer Mendelevitch & CJ Cenizal	2023-06-08	902	--
Security Guidance for All Authentication Methods	Nick Ma	2024-02-27	521	--
The Natural Diversity of Vectara: A Reflection of Our Culture	Felicia Jeffley	2024-07-23	444	--
Vector Database: Do You Really Need One?	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-02-21	1,299	--
Navigating the Future of Work: Cultivating Connection at Vectara	Felicia Jeffley	2024-02-13	595	--
A Reference Architecture for Grounded Generation	Ofer Mendelevitch & Tallat Shafaat	2023-08-08	1,856	--
Create-UI	Deryk DeGuzman & CJ Cenizal	2024-01-25	575	--
Introducing User-Defined Functions for Vectara	Shane Connelly	2024-08-15	803	--
Developing Applications with Retrieval Augmented Generation	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-06-08	366	--
Embracing Diversity: The Advantages of Diversity in Tech Internship Programs	Felicia Jeffley	2023-09-14	657	--
Avoiding hallucinations in LLM-powered Applications	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-05-02	1,900	--
Do Smaller Models Hallucinate More?	Ofer Mendelevitch & Haihao Shen & Dr. Deb Bharadwaj	2024-04-11	699	--
Generative AI Adoption Roadblocks, Pit Stops, Crashes, and Destinations	Kyle Gershuny	2024-07-10	4,247	--
Using Hybrid Search to Improve In-App Product Search	Sean Anderson	2023-10-03	927	--
Reducing Hallucinations in LLMs	Rogger Luo	2024-07-09	1,863	--
Introducing the Personal API Key: Elevate Your Authentication Experience	Nick Ma	2024-02-14	617	--
Vectara-ingest: Data Ingestion made easy	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-05-16	1,361	--
Vectara Chat: Revolutionizing Chat Development for the Modern Business	Nick Ma	2024-02-15	798	--
Evaluating RAG with RAGAs	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-04-02	1,770	--
Ingesting Data into Vectara Using PyAirbyte	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-03-19	1,596	--
HHEM \| Flash Update: Fast. But Are They Furious?	Ofer Mendelevitch & Miaoran Li	2024-05-15	307	--
Generative AI: Build vs. Buy and Choosing the Right Path at the …	Ryan Ham	2023-06-21	1,786	--
HHEM \| Flash Update: Google Gemma	Amin Ahmad	2024-02-22	274	--
Generative AI for Legal Teams	Sean Anderson	2024-01-24	2,439	--
Customers Don’t Like Your Chatbot. Here’s How to Make Them Love It.	Sean Anderson	2023-11-21	1,872	--
Top Large Language Models (LLMs)	Suleman Kazi & Amin Ahmad & Vivek Sourabh & Rogger Luo & Parth Vashisht & Abhilasha Lodha	2024-06-26	1,247	--
Introducing Vectara’s v2 API	Shane Connelly	2024-06-06	1,208	--
Say Goodbye to Delays: Expedite Your Experience with Stream Query	Nick Ma	2024-04-04	972	--
Unlocking the State-of-the-Art Reranker: Introducing the Vectara Multilingual Reranker_v1	Nick Ma & Vivek Sourabh	2024-05-28	571	--
HHEM \| Flash Update: Phi 2	Amin Ahmad	2024-01-16	256	--
The Latest Benchmark Between Vectara, OpenAI and Cohere’s Embedding Models	Nick Ma & Vivek Sourabh	2024-06-13	634	--
Boosting eCommerce Conversions with Semantic Search	Justin Hayes & Jose Montaña	2023-09-05	1,174	--
How to Natively Chat with PDFs	Aamir Khan	2023-07-18	1,758	--
Mockingbird is a RAG-Specific LLM that Beats GPT 4, Gemini 1.5 Pro …	Nick Ma & Suleman Kazi	2024-07-16	1,059	9
How to crawl websites for search (part 2)	Shane Connelly	2023-02-22	957	--
Why is Metadata Important in GenAI?	Shane Connelly	2023-11-28	1,276	--
Improving Customer Support with AI: A Deep Dive into Conversational AI	Aamir Khan & Ryan Ham	2024-01-31	1,484	--
LlamaIndex + Vectara	Ofer Mendelevitch & Logan Markewich	2023-09-13	1,434	--
Vectara’s free tier; what can you really build?	Ed Albanese	2023-01-23	683	--
Managing Vectara’s API Keys Programmatically	Shane Connelly	2023-12-14	825	--
How Sankofa was Built with Vectara	Adeel	2024-04-10	1,288	--
Get Diverse Results and Comprehensive Summaries with Vectara’s MMR Reranker	Shane Connelly	2023-12-05	765	--
Introducing Vectara InstantIndex	Tallat Shafaat	2023-02-28	1,362	--
HHEM \| Flash Update: Anthropic Claude 3	Minseok Bae	2024-03-06	351	--
Introducing Vectara-Agentic	Ofer Mendelevitch & David Oplatka	2024-08-14	2,215	--
Vectara Completes Penetration Testing	Tony Pecora	2024-03-05	400	--
How to Implement Hybrid Search Into Your Product for Better Customer Experiences	Paul Wozniczka	2023-09-19	2,236	--
Large Language Models for Code Generation – Part 1	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-05-17	1,295	--
Vectara Launches 2 Powerful New Generative Capabilities	Shane Connelly	2024-05-16	684	--
5 Reasons to Use Vectara’s LangChain Integration	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-06-15	1,577	--
The Present and Future of Law is being Defined by Generative AI …	Nidal Zoghbi	2024-05-01	1,220	--
User and Team Management in Vectara	Shane Connelly	2023-12-19	650	--
Retrieval Augmented Generation: Making Generative AI Safe, Trustworthy, and More Relevant	Justin Hayes	2023-05-31	2,417	--
Retrieval Augmented Generation Buyer’s Guide	David Levy & Justin Hayes	2024-01-26	2,724	--
Measuring Hallucinations in RAG Systems	Shane Connelly	2023-11-06	1,183	--
Top Large Language Models (LLMs): GPT-4, LLaMA 2, Mistral 7B, ChatGPT, and …	Suleman Kazi & Adel Elmahdy	2023-10-17	2,078	--
Managing Multi-tenancy with Vectara’s New Management APIs	Shane Connelly	2024-01-03	767	--
Conversational AI: The First Step to Interacting With Your Data	Nidal Zoghbi & Paul Wozniczka	2023-12-12	2,626	--
Vectara vs. The Rest (A Go-to-Market Perspective)	Hannah Yun	2024-10-01	620	--
Building AI Assistants with Vectara-agentic and Arize	Ofer Mendelevitch & John Gilhuly	2024-10-03	1,062	--
Introducing Vectara’s Chain Rerankers	Shane Connelly	2024-10-08	999	--
Why I Joined Vectara: Catching the Generative AI Rocket Ship	Jeff Chapman	2024-10-09	554	--
Automating the Back Office: Enhancing Efficiency and Experience at Startups	Mansur Wadalawala	2024-10-10	719	--
Celebrating 2 Million Downloads of HHEM	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-10-11	644	--
Building a RAG Pipeline is Difficult	Nikhil Bysani & Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-10-17	1,267	--
RAG with User-Defined Functions Based Reranking	David Oplatka & Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-10-23	1,528	--
Mockingbird is a RAG-Specific LLM that Beats GPT 4, Gemini 1.5 Pro …	Nick Ma and Suleman Kazi	2024-07-16	989	--
Vectara’s new Personal API keys	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-02-28	571	--
Vectara-ingest: Data Ingestion made easy	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-05-16	1,303	--
Introducing Vectara's v2 API	Shane Connelly	2024-06-06	1,171	--
Diving into the Emerging Trends in Conversational AI	Tallat Shafaat	2025-12-15	796	--
Tired of your CEO's questionable tweets & "vision" talks? Introducing Agentic CEO™	Alex Nijmeh	2025-04-01	424	--
Introducing the Personal API Key: Elevate Your Authentication Experience	Nick Ma	2024-02-14	563	--
Vectara Completes Penetration Testing	Tony Pecora	2024-03-05	392	--
Large Language Models for Code Generation – Part 2	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-05-17	898	--
Improved Search with Vectara Query Rewriting (Tech Preview)	Matt Gonzales, Nikhil Kumar and Rogger Luo	2025-02-11	714	--
Embracing Diversity: The Advantages of Diversity in Tech Internship Programs	Felicia Jeffley	2023-09-14	736	--
Enhanced query observability for greater insight and control	Matt Gonzales	2024-12-02	771	--
Automating the Back Office: Enhancing Efficiency and Experience at Startups	Mansur Wadalawala	2024-10-10	695	--
Managing Multi-tenancy with Vectara’s New Management APIs	Shane Connelly	2024-01-03	769	--
Create a Financial Investment Memo with Vectara Enterprise Deep Research	David Oplatka and Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-09-03	2,362	--
From data silos to RAG Sprawl: why the next AI revolution needs …	Dr. Amr Awadallah	2025-03-27	839	--
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Done Right: Retrieval	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-10-10	2,068	--
From Keywords to LLMs – The History of Search, and How ChatGPT …	Vivek Sourabh	2023-07-11	1,146	--
Researchers and Analysts: Enhancing Knowledge and Insights with GenAI-powered Answers	Nidal Zoghbi	2023-09-12	1,209	--
Do Smaller Models Hallucinate More?	Ofer Mendelevitch, Haihao Shen and Dr. Deb Bharadwaj	2024-04-11	700	--
Introducing New UI Tools for Vectara Chat – Create UI and React-chatbot	Nick Ma	2024-02-29	444	--
Ingesting Data into Vectara Using PyAirbyte	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-03-19	1,035	--
Announcing Vectara Agents: Enterprise AI That Works	Donna Dong	2025-09-10	791	--
New Release: “Grounded Generation”	Shane Connelly and CJ Cenizal	2023-05-30	691	--
Generative AI Adoption Roadblocks, Pit Stops, Crashes, and Destinations	Kyle Gershuny	2024-07-10	4,246	--
Is Your RAG Consistent?	Vishal Naik and Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-07-09	2,864	--
Generative AI for Legal Teams	Sean Anderson	2024-01-24	2,453	--
How to Natively Chat with PDFs	Aamir Khan	2023-07-18	1,830	--
The First 3 Women at Vectara: Generating and Advancing a Culture of …	Felicia Jeffley	2023-06-13	461	--
Sankofa – Your Memory Online	Ofer Mendelevitch and Adeel	2024-01-30	690	--
HHEM \| Flash Update: Anthropic Claude 3	Minseok Bae	2024-03-06	332	--
Advanced RAG Hackathon	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-05-09	885	--
Building AI Assistants with Vectara-agentic and Arize	Ofer Mendelevitch and John Gilhuly	2024-10-03	1,044	--
Why On-Premise AI Assistants Are Shaping Enterprise Futures	Sean Anderson	2025-12-05	2,053	--
Celebrating 2 Million Downloads of HHEM	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-10-11	635	--
Generative AI: Build vs. Buy and Choosing the Right Path at the …	Ryan Ham	2023-06-21	1,866	--
Automating Hallucination Detection: Introducing the Vectara Factual Consistency Score	Nick Ma	2024-03-26	814	--
Responding to RFPs with Enterprise Deep Research	Ofer Mendelevitch and David Oplatka	2025-07-22	1,964	--
Vectara Recognized in two 2025 Gartner® Market Quadrants for Generative AI	Sean Anderson	2025-12-01	451	--
Why does Deepseek-R1 hallucinate so much?	Chenyu Xu and Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-02-24	1,501	--
Retrieval Augmented Generation: Making Generative AI Safe, Trustworthy, and More Relevant	Justin Hayes	2023-05-31	2,468	--
Customers Don’t Like Your Chatbot. Here’s How to Make Them Love It.	Sean Anderson	2023-11-21	1,861	--
User and Team Management in Vectara	Shane Connelly	2023-12-19	617	--
Introducing the Next Generation of Vectara's Hallucination Leaderboard	Ahmed Awadallah and Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-11-19	2,465	--
Introducing User-Defined Functions for Vectara	Shane Connelly	2024-08-15	736	--
The Natural Diversity of Vectara: A Reflection of Our Culture	Felicia Jeffley	2024-07-23	452	--
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Done Right: Chunking	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-09-20	1,847	--
Reducing Hallucinations in LLMs	Rogger Luo	2024-07-09	1,821	--
Guardian Agents Benchmark	Vishal Naik and Chenyu Xu	2025-11-21	2,057	--
HCMBench: an evaluation toolkit for hallucination correction models	Rogger Luo	2025-05-14	1,442	--
AI safety in RAG	Ofer Mendelevitch and Conner Shiissler	2024-11-19	2,752	--
Tackling the Bull: Data Council Assembles the Braintrust to Tackle the Biggest …	Sean Anderson	2024-04-25	1,995	--
Vectara and Airbyte	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-01-17	1,412	--
Improving Customer Support with AI: A Deep Dive into Conversational AI	Ryan Ham	2024-01-31	1,444	--
Why I Joined Vectara: Catching the Generative AI Rocket Ship	Jeff Chapman	2024-10-09	525	--
Announcing Vectara’s Postman collection	Victor Chapman and Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-03-11	1,465	--
Introducing Vectara Portal	Deryk DeGuzman, Adeel and Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-08-21	1,053	--
Learning to Measure AI Search with Vectara	Charlie Hull and Matthias Krueger	2023-10-09	1,524	--
Agentic AI Meets Real-time Data with Streaming Agents	Craig Sanchez	2025-10-29	799	--
How Sankofa was Built with Vectara	Adeel	2024-04-10	1,165	--
Measuring Hallucinations in RAG Systems	Shane Connelly	2023-11-06	1,149	--
How Vectara is making regulatory compliance less of a headache	Jeff Chapman	2025-04-23	764	--
Boosting eCommerce Conversions with Semantic Search	Justin Hayes and Jose Montaña	2023-09-05	1,131	--
Developing Applications with Retrieval Augmented Generation	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-06-08	450	--
You’re Not an Engineer. Why Should You Care About RAG?	Miluska Berta	2024-08-29	875	--
RAG with User-Defined Functions Based Reranking	David Oplatka and Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-10-23	1,492	--
Introducing Vectara’s Chain Rerankers	Shane Connelly	2024-10-08	922	--
A new chapter with Vectara: advancing enterprise AI & RAG	Hank Prybylski	2025-02-28	712	--
RAGTime – A RAG-Powered Bot for Slack and Discord	Adeel	2024-06-25	687	--
Managing Vectara’s API Keys Programmatically	Shane Connelly	2023-12-14	829	--
Create-UI	Deryk DeGuzman and CJ Cenizal	2024-01-25	568	--
Cut the Bull... Detecting Hallucinations in Large Language Models	Simon Hughes	2023-11-06	2,303	--
How Vectara's New Boomerang Model Takes Retrieval Augmented Generation to the Next …	Shane Connelly	2023-09-28	1,136	--
Security Guidance for All Authentication Methods	Nick Ma	2024-02-27	480	--
Vectara RAG Hackathon	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-12-13	929	--
Why is Metadata Important in GenAI?	Shane Connelly	2023-11-28	1,308	--
Vectara Chat: Revolutionizing Chat Development for the Modern Business	Nick Ma	2024-02-15	766	--
Announcing Vectara’s Python-SDK	Ofer Mendelevitch and Adeel	2024-12-20	994	--
Trusted AI: the important role of guardian agents	Eva Nahari	2025-05-15	833	--
The Importance of Explainability in Enterprise RAG	Sean Anderson	2025-02-10	1,326	--
2026: The Year AI Grows Up?	Eva Nahari and Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-12-29	886	--
Unlocking the State-of-the-Art Reranker: Introducing the Vectara Multilingual Reranker_v1	Nick Ma and Vivek Sourabh	2024-05-28	531	--
Vectara Agent Framework	Nikhil Bysani	2025-09-23	643	--
Vector Search: What Is Vector Search and How Does it Work?	Tallat Shafaat and Talip Ozturk	2023-08-22	1,939	--
Announcing Typescript SDK	Adeel and Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-01-22	758	--
Introducing Vectara’s Custom Prompt Engine	Shane Connelly	2024-02-20	1,143	--
Vectara vs. The Rest (A Go-to-Market Perspective)	Hannah Yun	2024-10-01	582	--
Introducing custom text encoders on Vectara	Matt Gonzales and Pranav Hegde	2025-03-28	438	--
3 Tips for Startup Recruiting at an AI Company in 2023	Aileen Ajlouni	2023-06-27	891	--
End RAG Sprawl: The case for platform standardization	Eva Nahari	2025-03-25	1,004	--
How to Implement Hybrid Search Into Your Product for Better Customer Experiences	Paul Wozniczka	2023-09-19	2,261	--
User Interfaces for AI Applications	Deryk DeGuzman	2024-03-12	1,340	--
Highlights from The AI Conference 2024: Vectara’s Impact and Industry Trends	Miluska Berta and Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-09-17	492	--
Visibility and Control: Vectara’s Admin Center	Matt Gonzales	2025-07-30	546	--
Listing Documents in Vectara	Shane Connelly and Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-01-09	540	--
Introducing a New Guardian Agent: The Tool Validator	Donna Dong	2025-12-05	889	--
Building GenAI Enterprise Applications with Vectara and Datavolo	Ofer Mendelevitch, Justin Hayes, Alex Ethier, Sam Lachterman and Sean Petrie	2024-04-08	2,894	--
LlamaIndex + Vectara	Ofer Mendelevitch and Logan Markewich	2023-09-13	1,258	--
Introducing Boomerang – Vectara’s New and Improved Retrieval Model	Suleman Kazi and Vivek Sourabh	2023-09-26	2,062	--
Introducing Knee Reranking: smart result filtering for better results	Shane Connelly and Hussein Hassan	2025-01-08	940	--
Introducing Sub-agents	Pranav Hegde	2025-12-02	1,810	--
Introducing Mockingbird 2 - Vectara’s crosslingual grounded generation model	Rogger Luo and Renyi Qu	2025-04-17	766	--
Building a RAG Pipeline is Difficult	Nikhil Bysani and Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-10-17	1,250	--
Create LLM: integrate your own language model with Vectara	Matt Gonzales and Ibraheem Faiq	2025-03-06	445	--
React-Search	Deryk DeGuzman and CJ Cenizal	2024-01-18	498	--
Beyond Text: Introducing Artifacts for Vectara Agents	Ibraheem Faiq and Pranav Hegde	2025-12-01	803	--
Gen AI Platform Build vs Buy – Part I: Options and Tradeoffs	Justin Hayes	2024-04-24	1,777	--
The Present and Future of Law is being Defined by Generative AI …	Nidal Zoghbi	2024-05-01	1,176	--
A Reference Architecture for Grounded Generation	Ofer Mendelevitch and Tallat Shafaat	2023-08-08	1,954	--
Building GenAI Applications with Vectara and Unstructured	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-02-22	927	--
HHEM v2: A New and Improved Factual Consistency Scoring Model	Forrest Bao, Miaoran Li and Rogger Luo	2024-04-16	1,765	--
Introducing Open RAG Eval: The open-source framework for comparing RAG solutions	Donna Dong and Eva Nahari	2025-04-10	548	--
Towards a Gold Standard for RAG Evaluation	Ofer Mendelevitch, Suleman Kazi and Jimmy Lin	2025-04-08	3,232	--
Context Engineering: Can you trust long context?	Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-07-15	1,028	--
HHEM: expanded language support	Matt Gonzales and Forrest Bao	2025-01-07	488	--
Vector Database: Do You Really Need One?	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-02-21	1,272	--
How to crawl websites for search	Shane Connelly	2023-02-09	1,085	--
Is Semantic Chunking worth the computational cost?	Renyi Qu and Forrest Bao	2024-11-19	853	--
Deep Dive Into Vectara Multilingual Reranker v1, State-of-the-Art Reranker Across 100+ Languages	Vivek Sourabh and Nick Ma	2024-05-28	2,009	--
Introducing Vectara InstantIndex	Tallat Shafaat	2023-02-28	1,444	--
Congratulations to the Winners of the First Ever Built by Vectara Contest	Sean Anderson	2024-06-05	1,048	--
Top Large Language Models (LLMs)	Suleman Kazi, Amin Ahmad, Vivek Sourabh, Rogger Luo, Parth Vashisht and Abhilasha Lodha	2024-06-26	1,219	--
Streaming truth and trust: reinventing financial services with AI and event-driven architectures	Eva Nahari	2025-04-24	956	--
Say Hello to Vectara's “API Playground”	Shane Connelly	2023-03-07	681	--
New HHEM and OpenAI chat completions endpoints	Matt Gonzales, Abhishek Pradhan and Ibraheem Faiq	2025-04-24	755	--
Stop Scrambling: Generate Onboarding Guides with Enterprise Deep Research	David Oplatka and Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-08-12	1,514	--
Large Language Models Use Cases and Applications	Justin Hayes	2023-03-14	3,359	--
Evaluating RAG with RAGAs	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-04-02	1,606	--
Building An LLM-Powered Search Box with Vectara	Ofer Mendelevitch and CJ Cenizal	2023-04-04	1,040	--
When AI “Assures” Without Evidence: Lessons from Deloitte’s $290K Hallucination	Donna Dong	2025-10-20	787	--
Retrieval Augmented Generation Buyer's Guide	David Levy and Justin Hayes	2024-01-26	2,580	--
DeepSeek-R1 hallucinates more than DeepSeek-V3	Forrest Bao, Chenyu Xu and Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-01-30	960	--
The Latest Benchmark Between Vectara, OpenAI and Cohere’s Embedding Models	Nick Ma and Vivek Sourabh	2024-06-13	596	--
Not All Chatbots are Created Equal, and Your Decision Could Be Costing …	Shawn Clink	2023-08-24	1,516	--
Correcting Hallucinations in Large Language Models	Utkarsh Jain, Suleman Kazi and Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-09-03	2,081	--
How to crawl websites for search (part 2)	Shane Connelly	2023-02-21	1,019	--
AI assistants and AI agents: The next wave transforming financial services	Geoffrey Winship	2025-04-22	1,594	--
Conversational AI: The First Step to Interacting With Your Data	Nidal Zoghbi and Paul Wozniczka	2023-12-12	2,558	--
Deep Dive Into Mockingbird: A RAG and Structured Output Focused LLM	Suleman Kazi, Vivek Sourabh, Rogger Luo and Abhilasha Lodha	2024-07-16	1,677	--
Hallucination Detection: Commercial vs Open Source - A Deep Dive	David Oplatka and Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-09-09	1,522	--
April Fools Prank: New No-hallucinations LLM	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-04-01	638	--
The Great Search Disruption	Ofer Mendelevitch and CJ Cenizal	2023-06-08	1,037	--
Vectara's Hallucination Corrector	Matt Gonzales, Donna Dong, Chenyu Xu, Suleman Kazi and Rogger Luo	2025-05-13	569	--
Navigating the Future of Work: Cultivating Connection at Vectara	Felicia Jeffley	2024-02-13	595	--
Introducing Vectara-Agentic	Ofer Mendelevitch and David Oplatka	2024-08-14	2,096	--
Using Hybrid Search to Improve In-App Product Search	Sean Anderson	2023-10-03	929	--
HHEM \| Flash Update: Fast. But Are They Furious?	Ofer Mendelevitch and Miaoran Li	2024-05-15	296	--
HHEM 2.1: A Better Hallucination Detection Model and a New Leaderboard	Ofer Mendelevitch, Forrest Bao, Miaoran Li and Rogger Luo	2024-08-05	1,610	--
Avoiding hallucinations in LLM-powered Applications 12	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-05-02	2,128	--
Tool Configurations: The Secret Sauce for Agent Customization	Pranav Hegde	2025-09-18	1,088	--
Get Diverse Results and Comprehensive Summaries with Vectara’s MMR Reranker	Shane Connelly	2023-12-05	757	--
MCP: The control plane of Agentic AI	Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-08-14	2,704	--
Unifying enterprise AI: overcoming the RAG Sprawl challenge	Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-03-26	1,478	--
Open Evaluation	CJ Cenizal and Donna Dong	2025-05-20	1,052	--
Why building your own RAG stack can be a costly mistake	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-12-10	1,876	--
5 Reasons You Need an Agent Platform, Not a DIY Stack	Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-12-09	1,449	--
Vectara at GITEX Dubai: Powering the Future of Generative AI and RAG	Miluska Berta and Alex Nijmeh	2024-10-31	902	--
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Done Right: Document Stores	Ofer Mendelevitch	2024-01-23	1,223	--
Table Data Understanding	Matt Gonzales	2024-12-10	621	--
HHEM \| Flash Update: Google Gemma	Amin Ahmad	2024-02-22	260	--
Say Goodbye to Delays: Expedite Your Experience with Stream Query	Nick Ma	2024-04-04	860	--
HHEM \| Flash Update: Phi 2	Amin Ahmad	2024-01-16	243	--
Metadata updates	Shane Connelly	2024-12-17	614	--
Vectara joins the connect with Confluent partner program	Jeff Chapman	2025-03-04	710	--
Vectara Launches 2 Powerful New Generative Capabilities	Shane Connelly	2024-05-16	606	--
Top Large Language Models (LLMs): GPT-4, LLaMA 2, Mistral 7B, ChatGPT, and …	Suleman Kazi and Adel Elmahdy	2023-10-17	2,119	--
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Done Right: Database Data	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-12-06	1,872	--
Fine-Tuning vs Retrieval Augmented Generation	Ofer Mendelevitch and Simon Hughes	2023-07-26	1,710	--
5 Reasons to Use Vectara’s LangChain Integration	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-06-15	1,674	--
Open RAG Benchmark: A New Frontier for Multimodal PDF Understanding in RAG	Renyi Qu	2025-06-27	1,037	--
Introducing Enterprise Deep Research	Ofer Mendelevitch and David Oplatka	2025-07-17	2,138	--
Your Copilot is Not Enough	Ofer Mendelevitch	2025-11-06	1,552	--
Power & Precision: Enhancing Operational GenAI with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Vectara	Bader Hamdan, Ebrahim Alareqi and Justin Hayes	2024-07-29	1,149	--
Large Language Models for Code Generation - Part 1	Ofer Mendelevitch	2023-05-16	1,103	--
Top Enterprise RAG predictions	Eva Nahari	2025-01-23	1,531	--

Plushcap, by Matt Makai. 2021-2026.