RAG in 75+ languages: what breaks first
Building retrieval that works in Urdu, Arabic, and Tagalog as well as it does in English. Spoiler: the embeddings were the least of it.
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Building retrieval that works in Urdu, Arabic, and Tagalog as well as it does in English. Spoiler: the embeddings were the least of it.
Building a multimodal context engine — scanned PDFs, screenshots, charts, audio — and why 'just extract the text' is where pipelines go to die.
We run both plain RAG and GraphRAG in production. A field guide to which questions actually need the graph — and which just need better chunking.
Chunking strategies and vector databases are the easy 20%. The hard 80% is access control, stale documents, and users who ask questions no document answers.