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Ask HN: RAG as a Service?

5 pointsby Difwif12 months ago
I know the various different solutions for building RAG systems using a vector store manually but I&#x27;m working on a new project that could benefit from a RAG assisted version of GPT-4o.<p>I&#x27;m aware of the OpenAI Assistants API (still pretty early stage) but I&#x27;m wondering if there&#x27;s any other options out there?<p>To be specific: I&#x27;m looking for an off the shelf solution where I can easily drop in a bunch of documents or a list of URLs and then ask search or summarization type questions on the dataset. I&#x27;m trying to avoid building it since it&#x27;s a bit of distraction from my primary objective. Most of what I&#x27;ve found is pretty simple and DIY and still requires you to figure out document parsing and chunking. I just need something that works for existing web pages (with some non-static content).<p>My best solution is to download pages after a delay using a Chrome extension and load them into the OpenAI Assistants API but that&#x27;s limited to returning 20 chunks and can be a bit limited on summarization.

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kkoppenhaver12 months ago
Someone I know runs <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docsbot.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docsbot.ai&#x2F;</a> and that seems like maybe what you&#x27;re talking about?
pants212 months ago
I have looked around quite a bit but haven&#x27;t really found anything that strikes the right balance for me of features, cost, effectiveness, etc.<p>I&#x27;ve been sort of building my own system in Go which is already a big improvement on the Python-based solutions, but it&#x27;s nowhere near ready for this type of thing. But it uses Go-colly and go-readability for web scraping.
muzani12 months ago
AWS Bedrock does it, but we had about 300 rows of CSV so it was faster to roll out our own. I spent a couple days wrestling with permissions on Bedrock, but if you&#x27;re familiar with AWS, you may find it useful.
ianpurton12 months ago
Take a look at Bionic <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bionic-gpt.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bionic-gpt.com&#x2F;</a>
aregsar12 months ago
David sacks’ glueai app uses ragie.ai under the hood