I'm excited to share this conversation with Max Rumpf the founder of Sid.AI. I wanted to speak to Max because Retrieval Augmented generation has become core to building AI applications and he knows more about RAG than anyone I know. We get deep into the challenges of building RAG systems and the episode is full of technical detail and practical insights.  We cover:00:00 - Introduction to Max Rumpf and SID.ai03:39 - How SID.ai's RAG approach differs from basic tutorials07:30 - Challenges of document processing and chunking strategies13:07 - Retrieval techniques and hybrid search approaches15:06 - Discussion on knowledge graphs and their limitations20:58 - Reranking in RAG systems and performance improvements32:14 - Impact of longer context windows on RAG systems35:10 - The future of RAG and information retrieval39:47 - Recent research papers on AI and hallucination detection42:04 - Value-augmented sampling for language model alignment43:11 - Future trends and investment opportunities in AI43:50 - SEO optimization for LLMs and its potential as a business45:20 - Closing thoughts and wrap-up I hope you enjoy the conversation and if you do, please subscribe!