No, MCP Hasn’t Killed RAG — in Fact, They’re Complementary

Is RAG dead yet? That was the tongue-in-cheek question posed recently by Douwe Kiela, CEO of Contextual AI. And Kiela knows a thing or two about RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) — he led the team at Meta that introduced the technique in a May 2020 research paper.

Of course, Kiela’s post was a reaction to the current hype around Model Context Protocol (MCP), which has (wrongly) been touted as a RAG-killer. But as Kiela pointed out in an interview with The New Stack, RAG can be used with MCP — something that his own RAG-based company,…