Enterprise RAG Pipelines Are Costly and Hallucination-Prone at Scale
Standard RAG architectures become prohibitively expensive at enterprise scale and consistently produce hallucinated outputs that cannot be verified. Teams investing in retrieval-augmented generation face a fundamental tradeoff between cost and reliability with no well-established solution.
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