Agentic RAG 2026: When the AI Decides How It Searches

In spring 2026, the world of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is facing a fundamental change. While RAG in 2023 was still a simple pipeline – embed query, fetch top-K chunks, stuff into prompt, generate – the architecture has since split into three independent directions: Agentic RAG, Graph RAG, and Long-Context approaches. In particular, the...