LLM vs RAG

LLM (Large Language Model) An LLM like GPT-4 or Claude is: A pretrained model on massive text data Generates answers based on what it has learned during training Doesn’t know your private or real-time data unless provided in the prompt Limitation: Can hallucinate Knowledge is static (cutoff-based) RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) RAG is a system design pattern, not a model. It works like this: User asks a question System retrieves relevant data (docs, DB, APIs, vector search) That da...