#Chroma

Mintlify ditched RAG and switched to a virtual file system

From the basics of RAG and vector databases to Mintlify's design and implementation of ChromaFs, a virtual file system that converts UNIX commands into ChromaDB queries.

Chroma Context-1 achieves search performance equivalent to Frontier LLM with 20B parameters

A self-editing search agent with 20B parameters published by Chroma. It performs multi-hop search while dynamically pruning the context, and shows the same or higher accuracy than the Frontier model at 1/10 the cost and up to 10 times faster latency. Weights are exposed in Apache 2.0.