Building Cost-Efficient Enterprise RAG Applications with Intel Gaudi 2 and Intel Xeon
This Hugging Face blog post details how to build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines for enterprise use cases using Intel Gaudi 2 accelerators and Intel Xeon CPUs. It covers the architecture and cost-efficiency tradeoffs of deploying RAG on Intel hardware as an alternative to GPU-based infrastructure. The post is positioned as a practical guide for organizations seeking lower-cost inference deployments.
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