Generation 2 — RAG-Augmented Models (2022–2023)

Generation 2: RAG — The Era of Grounded Knowledge (2022–2023) In the first generation of AI, models were like brilliant students locked in a room with no internet. They had incredible reasoning skills, but their knowledge was frozen in time (their "training data cutoff"). If you asked about a company memo written yesterday or a news event from this morning, they would either apologize or, worse, confidently hallucinate an answer. Enter RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation. RAG is the architectura