Standard RAG fails silently on the content that matters most in textbooks and financial documents, a chart becomes an empty image tag, a table of financial ratios disappears, an equation becomes garbled text. This talk covers our lessons learned making a learning product reliable on multimodal content, using Chinese open-source vision models that cost a fraction of proprietary alternatives.
I'm Emily Nghiem, CEO and founder of Provio, a learner-centric platform built to help individuals and professionals own their materials and re-skill fast including difficult fields such as investment and banking. I've spent 10 years building B2B AI products at Bloomberg and Meta.
