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Chroma and Agentic Retrieval

Sep 24, 2026 SED Production 52:20

Vector search was an early answer to AI's retrieval problem, but agentic systems have raised the stakes, issuing queries at machine speed and demanding infrastructure that keeps pace affordably. Chroma builds open source retrieval infrastructure and recently released Context One, a compact model that matches frontier quality on search. CTO Hammad Bashir joins Gregor Vand to discuss ChromaDB, context rot, and where AI data infrastructure is heading.

Chroma and Agentic Retrieval

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