Google’s URL Context Grounding: Another Nail in RAG’s Coffin?

Google’s hot streak in AI-related releases continues unabated. Just a few days ago, it released a new tool for Gemini called URL context grounding. 

URL context grounding can be used stand-alone or combined with Google search grounding to conduct deep dives into internet content.

In a nutshell, it’s a way to programmatically have Gemini read, understand and answer questions about content and data contained in individual web URLs (including those pointing to PDFs) without the need to perform what we know as traditional RAG processing. — Read More

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Systems Thinking for Scaling Responsible Multi-Agent Architectures

Nimisha Asthagiri explains the critical need for responsible AI in complex multi-agent systems. She shares practical techniques for engineering leaders and architects, applying systems thinking and Causal Flow Diagrams. She shows how these methods help predict and mitigate the unintended consequences and structural risks inherent in autonomous, learning agents, using a scheduler agent example. — Read More

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