Deploying RAG at Scale: Key Questions for Vendors

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a significant technology for organizations leveraging generative AI, enabling the controlled and secure connection of large language models to corporate data for business-specific applications, such as enhancing customer service. However, scaling RAG across enterprises poses challenges, including integration with existing data sources, data privacy, infrastructure management, and performance. Vespa offers a comprehensive platform and scalable deployment architecture to address these challenges, proven by its use in Yahoo’s operations, supporting AI applications with real-time query processing, hybrid search, and advanced data processing. Vespa's platform, designed for high performance and security, provides a robust environment for deploying AI applications at scale, ensuring compliance with data privacy and optimizing costs through dynamic workload adjustments. By incorporating emerging best practices and technologies, Vespa supports the evolution and future-proofing of RAG deployments, allowing enterprises to adapt to sophisticated use case requirements efficiently.