# Is RAG Dead? The Pioneer Who Invented AI's Memory Layer Answers — with Douwe Kiela, Co-Founder, Contextual AI {ICYMI}

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Published: 2026-07-01T07:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail In case you missed it..... RAG didn't just survive the LLM boom — it became the backbone of how enterprises put AI to work. In this replay, we sit down with Douwe Kiela, the AI researcher who led the team that introduced Retrieval-Augmented Generation in 2020 and went on to co-found Contextual AI. Douwe unpacks whether RAG is here to stay, why most enterprise AI dies in the gap between a great demo and production, how to tame hallucinations, and what actually separates a real...

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