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| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Information technology |
| Founded | 2023 |
| Founders | Douwe Kiela, Amanpreet Singh |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California, U.S. |
Number of employees | 95 |
| Website | contextual |
Contextual AI is an enterprise software company[1] based in Mountain View, California. It develops a platform for building[2] specialized Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) agents for enterprise use.[3] The company was founded in 2023 by Douwe Kiela and Amanpreet Singh, both former AI researchers at Facebook AI Research (FAIR)[4] and Hugging Face.[5] Douwe Kiela previously led the Meta research team that introduced the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approach in 2020.[6][7][8]
Contextual AI focuses on enterprise generative AI applications using RAG 2.0 technology,[9] with deployments primarily in the technology, banking, finance and media sectors.[10]
- ^ Singhal, Rahul (November 30, 2023). "The Power Of RAG: How Retrieval-Augmented Generation Enhances Generative AI". Forbes.
- ^ Wiggers, Kyle (June 7, 2023). "Contextual AI launches from stealth to build enterprise-focused language models". TechCrunch.
- ^ Wolfberg, Elias (August 29, 2024). "From RAG to Richness: Startup Uplevels Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Enterprises". NVIDIA.
- ^ Franzen, Carl (June 7, 2023). "Contextual AI emerges from stealth with $20M to pursue 'artificial specialized intelligence'". VentureBeat.
- ^ "Build specialized RAG agents with Contextual AI". Cerebral Valley. January 28, 2025.
- ^ Douwe, Kiela; Lewis, Patrick; Perez, Ethan; Piktus, Aleksandra; Petroni, Fabio; Karpukhin, Vladimir; Goyal, Naman; Küttler, Heinrich; Lewis, Mike; Yih, Wen-tau; Rocktäschel, Tim; Riedel, Sebastian (2020). "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks". arXiv:2005.11401 [cs.CL].
- ^ Kiela, Douwe; Riedel, Sebastian; Lewis, Patrick; Piktus, Aleksandra (September 28, 2020). "Retrieval Augmented Generation: Streamlining the creation of intelligent natural language processing models". Meta.
- ^ MacManus, Richard (May 28, 2025). "No, MCP Hasn't Killed RAG — in Fact, They're Complementary". The New Stack.
- ^ Bridgwater, Adrian (January 15, 2025). "Contextual AI Specialized Agents, Even More Raggy than RAG". Techstrong.ai.
- ^ Patangia, Pahal (October 28, 2024). "Fintech Leaders Tap Generative AI for Safer, Faster, More Accurate Financial Services". NVIDIA.
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