Context engineering is the new prompt engineering, and enterprises are all in, reports TNS Senior Editor Richard MacManus.

Does that mean the once highly hyped retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is dead?

Nope. It turns out RAG is still happening, but it’s not called that anymore, according to Douwe Kiela, CEO of Contextual AI and co-author of the original RAG paper.

RAG has quietly been rebranded as “context engineering.” Read Richard’s analysis to learn why this shift isn’t just semantics.

In other AI-related news on today’s homepage:

• The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) today launched a new family of open coding agents, and here’s the cool part: These standalone models outperform similar-sized models on standard benchmarks, according to TNS Senior Editor for AI Frederic Lardinois. Read Frederic’s news story to learn about other AI goodies that Ai2 open sourced today.
• In the age of AI, continuous integration (CI) may become a thing of the past, writes TNS Senior Editor Joab Jackson. Joab shares what QCON AI speakers say will happen to integration in the wake of an AI-induced overhaul of the software development cycle.

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