[andai]

Can you explain this in more detail? Is this for RAG, i.e. combining vector search with keyword search?

My knowledge on that subject roughly begins and ends with this excellent article, so I'd love to hear how this relates to that.

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/contextual-retrieval

Especially since what Anthropic describes here is a bit of a rube Goldberg machine which also involves preprocessing (contextual summarization) and a reranking model, so I was wondering if there's any "good enough" out of the box solutions for it.

[tjgreen]

Yes, hybrid search is one of the main current use cases we had in mind developing the extension, but it works for old-fashioned standalone keyword-only search as well. There is a lot of art to how you combine keyword and semantic search (there are entire companies like Cohere devoted to just this step!). We're leaving this part, at least for now, up to application developers.