The company that made RAG mainstream is now betting against it

Pinecone just declared the RAG era over. Pinecone built the vector database category. It defined RAG as the standard pattern for grounding language models. Some 800,000 developers and 9,000 paying customers learned how to chunk, embed, and retrieve on Pinecone’s infrastructure. With Nexus, a knowledge engine built for agents that was revealed on Monday, Pinecone is telling those same developers that the pattern they learned is the bottleneck.