Databricks built a RAG agent it says can handle every kind of enterprise search

Databricks' KARL agent uses reinforcement learning to generalize across six enterprise search behaviors — the problem that breaks most RAG pipelines.
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New Databricks KARL RAG Agent Promises 33% Cost Reduction vs. Claude Opus 4.6

Databricks has released KARL, an RL-trained RAG agent that it says handles all six enterprise search categories at 33% lower ...

Agents need vector search more than RAG ever did

Qdrant's $50M Series B and version 1.17 release make the case that agentic AI didn't simplify vector search — it scaled the ...
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Qdrant Launches Groundbreaking Pure Vector-Based Hybrid Search, Setting Higher Standards for RAG and AI Applications

BERLIN & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Qdrant, the leading high-performance open-source vector database, today announced the launch of BM42, a pure vector-based hybrid search approach that delivers more ...