When Machines Learn Like Us: How MIT’s AI is Bridging Sight and Sound

Introduction: The Convergence of Senses in Machines Imagine a toddler hearing a dog bark for the first time. She turns her head, sees the furry creature, and instinctively connects the sound to its source. This seamless association between sight and sound is fundamental to how humans understand the world. Now, picture a machine doing the […]

Building and Deploying Data-Aware AI Agents in Databricks with Claude Opus 4: An End-to-End Python Tutorial

Introduction Just a few days ago on May 23Databricks dropped a huge update: you can now run Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 right inside your Databricks workspace. In plain terms, that means you can build AI agents that tap directly into your own data lakes, run on secure infrastructure, and follow governance rules you […]

Building an Agentic RAG System: A Hands-On Guide to Autonomous Knowledge Retrieval

Introduction In the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the integration of autonomous decision-making within information retrieval systems marks a significant advancement. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has been instrumental in enhancing the capabilities of language models by providing them with access to external knowledge sources. However, traditional RAG systems often operate in a linear fashion, lacking the […]

How Anthropic Is Reinventing RAG Systems with Contextual Retrieval

Anthropic is redefining Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems by addressing one of their most persistent limitations: lack of context. Traditional RAG pipelines rely on semantic similarity and keyword matching to retrieve relevant information chunks, but they often miss critical details hidden in surrounding content. Anthropic’s new approach—built on contextual embeddings and chunk-aware prompting—improves precision, reduces retrieval […]

Visualizing Chunking Impacts in Agentic RAG with Agno, Qdrant, RAGAS and LlamaIndex

In the AI Agents world of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Agentic-RAG), one challenge that persists is how Agents chunk our source documents to optimize response accuracy and relevance. This blog series dives into how different chunking strategies — Fixed, Semantic, Agentic, and Recursive Chunking— impact the performance of Agentic RAG systems. Using Agno for creating agent and orchestration and […]