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Company blog · contextual.ai/blogai

Contextual AI is the company blog at contextual.ai, writing about ai. Since 2023, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “RAG 2.0”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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16mentions?
10HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN comments link Contextual AI for its job postings and its Show HN launch of an open-weight reranker (v2) with an eval set. None of the comments discuss the blog's writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Replace DIY complexity with the context engineering platform built for accuracy. Ship production-grade AI that is secure, scalable, and specialized.

Most-linked posts?

  1. RAG 2.0
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. Contextual AI | Mountain View, CA | Onsite/Hybrid | Full-time We're hiring for multiple roles including: - Applied ML Engineer: https://grnh.se/0d05b2f17us - MTS, Retrieval: https://grnh.se/982e07f47us - Product Engineer: https://grnh.se/d7268acf7us Please feel free to check out our career page for all open roles: https://contextual.ai/careers/ If you're interested in what we're building at Contextual AI but don't s…

    Comment linking /careers/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”
  2. Submitted RAG 2.0 as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  3. Contextual AI | Onsite/Flexible Hours | Mountain View, CA | Full-time | Product Engineer & AI Solutions Engineer At Contextual AI, we are building the next generation of LLMs, from first principles, specifically for enterprise use cases. We have a few roles we’re hiring for including: -Product Engineer -AI Solutions Engineer For the Product Engineer position, we're looking for someone with strong full-stack engineer…

    Comment linking /careers/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)”
  4. Submitted Contextual AI introduces RAG 2.0 as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. The scaling laws don't show an inflection point yet [0], DeepMind and OpenAI are producing rudimentary agents, and inference keeps getting cheaper. It's certainly possible that we passed the capability inflection point months ago and we'll only see a slowing of progress in the future, but even if so there's no evidence that AGI will be significantly less capable than humans when we approach the asymptote of the S-cu…

    Comment linking /plotting-progress-in-ai/

    on “Have We Reached Peak AI?”
  6. Submitted AgentLens: The Future of Evaluation Is Agentic as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. Open weight models: https://huggingface.co/collections/ContextualAI/contextual-a... Complete eval set: https://huggingface.co/collections/ContextualAI/contextual-a... Blog: https://contextual.ai/blog/rerank-v2/

    Comment linking /blog/rerank-v2/

    on “Show HN: We built a better reranker and open sourced it”
  8. Submitted Open-Sourcing the Best Local Text-to-SQL System as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Contextual.ai as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted LMUnit: Natural language unit testing for LLM evaluation as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted An Agentic Alternative to GraphRAG as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Contextual: Scalable RAG Agents as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Vision Augmented Language Models: Computer Vision Through the Lens of NLP as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Instruction Following Reranker as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Contextual AI raises $80M Series A as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Better, Cheaper, Faster LLM Alignment with KTO as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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