Category: RAG
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Databricks Instructed Retriever: 7 Ways It Beats RAG
The ballroom at Databricks Summit 2026 fell silent as Matei Zaharia dropped a single line into the keynote: “Your vector database just became optional.” He wasn’t hyping a new cloud service. He was introducing the Instructed Retriever, a deceptively simple architecture that asks: what if one language model could retrieve and generate all at once,…