Watson Discovery versus watsonx Discovery: A comparison

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This post introduces watsonx Discovery as a new capability for semantic search and generative AI integration. It details its architecture, which includes an IBM-packaged Elasticsearch for semantic, federated, and vector search, and its integration with watsonx Assistant for conversational search using RAG. The post highlights the three key components for enterprise-quality RAG: a conversational AI platform, a retrieval system, and enterprise-ready LLMs. It also contrasts watsonx Discovery with the existing Watson Discovery, emphasizing their different focuses: document processing vs. conversational semantic search.