Exa CEO Will Bryk explains why retrieval can help solve the tokenpocalypse: (opens in new tab)

Exa CEO Will Bryk explains why retrieval can help solve the tokenpocalypse: "We should not be using gigantic models for every task." "You should use a family of models of different sizes. The big model decides what to do, and it dishes out commands to the small models, and those small models can be way more accurate and reliable if they're using retrieval." "Retrieval helps small models act like big models... We do save our customers a huge amount of tokens because they can use smaller models...