2 May 2026Briefing
Architecture and Retrieval
The patterns that distinguish production AI from demos.
Topic
RAG & Retrieval
Production retrieval-augmented generation: vector stores, hybrid search, evaluation, and the architectural choices that hold at scale.
2 May 2026Research
Production AI Architecture: Patterns That Distinguish Production from Demo
By 2026, enterprise AI systems are no longer differentiated primarily by which large language model they use. The frontier models, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7, OpenAI's GPT-5.2, Google's Gemini 3 Pro, are converging on capability for the median enterprise workload. What separates production-grade s