So you wanna build a local RAG?
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Skald launched a fully local RAG system that processes data without sending information to third-party services, addressing privacy concerns for organizations using AI tools. The company tested open-source alternatives like Postgres with pgvector, Sentence Transformers, and GPT-OSS against proprietary services like Voyage and Claude, finding that local setups scored 7.10-8.63 compared to 9.45 for cloud services, with local systems excelling at simple queries but struggling with multi-document information aggregation.
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