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Strategy is proud to announce a strategic partnership with marking an important milestone in their AI journey. Strategy makes AI reliable on enterprise data, and is committed to helping organizations transform data into actionable insights and make faster, more informed decisions. Through this collaboration, we are enabling to further leverage data as a strategic asset across their organization, powered by Strategy Mosaic, our Universal Semantic Layer that gives AI the business context it needs to produce consistent, governed results. This partnership aligns with long-term vision of embedding AI and data-driven decision-making into every aspect of their business. By enhancing their analytical capabilities with Strategy, we are helping to build a stronger foundation for innovation, operational excellence, and customer value. As continues its AI-first journey, Strategy is proud to play a role in supporting their growth and shaping the future of their organization. #AI #SemanticLayer #InsuranceTech #StrategyMosaic
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Strategy is proud to announce a strategic partnership with marking an important milestone in their AI journey. Strategy makes AI reliable on enterprise data, and is committed to helping organizations transform data into actionable insights and make faster, more informed decisions. Through this collaboration, we are enabling to further leverage data as a strategic asset across their organization, powered by Strategy Mosaic, our Universal Semantic Layer that gives AI the business context it needs to produce consistent, governed results. This partnership aligns with long-term vision of embedding AI and data-driven decision-making into every aspect of their business. By enhancing their analytical capabilities with Strategy, we are helping to build a stronger foundation for innovation, operational excellence, and customer value. As continues its AI-first journey, Strategy is proud to play a role in supporting their growth and shaping the future of their organization. #AI #SemanticLayer #InsuranceTech #StrategyMosaic

Strategy

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We're excited to introduce the Retrieval Harness in LlamaParse - which is the 2026 version of RAG over documents Generalized agents need the right set of tools to scalably search and read through an arbitrary corpus of data (from 10 docs to 1m+ docs). They can already demonstrate great retrieval performance over a local filesystem, need a proper backend for a large collection of managed data. The Retrieval Harness exposes a diverse set of tools for various needs: 1. Hybrid Retrieval: Combine vector search with keyword search, let the agent set the alpha value to toggle between the two 2. List Files: a scalable version of `ls` to list files within an index 3. File Grep: enable regex search within a given file 4. File Read: Allow agents to read a subsection from an existing document. The agent can choose to interleave any sequence of these tools in order to complete a variety of tasks, from simple to hard. Come check it out! Blog: Sign up to LlamaParse:
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We're excited to introduce the Retrieval Harness in LlamaParse - which is the 2026 version of RAG over documents Generalized agents need the right set of tools to scalably search and read through an arbitrary corpus of data (from 10 docs to 1m+ docs). They can already demonstrate great retrieval performance over a local filesystem, need a proper backend for a large collection of managed data. The Retrieval Harness exposes a diverse set of tools for various needs: 1. Hybrid Retrieval: Combine vector search with keyword search, let the agent set the alpha value to toggle between the two 2. List Files: a scalable version of `ls` to list files within an index 3. File Grep: enable regex search within a given file 4. File Read: Allow agents to read a subsection from an existing document. The agent can choose to interleave any sequence of these tools in order to complete a variety of tasks, from simple to hard. Come check it out! Blog: Sign up to LlamaParse:

Jerry Liu

18,615 views • 2 months ago