Six months have passed since our last year-end review. As the initial wave of excitement sparked by DeepSeek earlier this year begins to wane, AI seems to have entered a phase of stagnation. This pattern is evident in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as well: although academic papers on RAG continue to be plentiful, significant breakthroughs have been few and far between in recent months. Likewise, recent iterations of RAGFlow have focused on incremental improvements rather than major fea...
