PageIndex Ditches Vectors, Nails 98.7% on FinanceBench—RAG's Wake-Up Call
Vector databases? Overrated relics. PageIndex just hit 98.7% accuracy on brutal financial QA benchmarks by reasoning smarter, not searching dumber.
⚡ Key Takeaways
- PageIndex achieves 98.7% on FinanceBench by reasoning over pages, skipping vectors entirely.
- Exposes vector RAG flaws: chunking tables, intent mismatches, no memory.
- Promising for finance docs, but compute costs and scaling loom large.
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Originally reported by Towards AI