RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Explained for Beginners: Build AI Applications Using Your Own Data

Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are incredibly powerful. They can answer questions, generate code, summarize documents, and assist with various tasks. However, they have one major limitation: They only know what they were trained on. If you ask them about your company's internal documents, private PDFs, or the latest information that wasn't part of their training data, they may provide incorrect answers or simply not know the answer. This is wh...