The NVIDIA AI Blueprint for RAG gives developers a foundational starting point for building scalable, customizable retrieval pipelines that deliver both high accuracy and throughput. Use this blueprint to build RAG applications that provide context-aware responses by connecting LLMs to extensive multimodal enterprise data—including text, tables, charts, and infographics from millions of PDFs. With 15x faster multimodal PDF data extraction and 50% fewer incorrect answers, enterprises can unlock actionable insights from data and drive productivity at scale.
This blueprint can be used as-is, combined with other NVIDIA Blueprints, such as the Digital Human blueprint or the AI Assistant for customer service blueprint, or integrated with an agent to support more advanced use cases. Get started with this reference architecture to ground AI-driven decisions in relevant enterprise data - wherever it resides.
Hardware Requirements The blueprint offers two primary modes of deployment. By default, it deploys the referenced NIM microservices locally. Each method lists its minimum required hardware. This will change if the deployment turns on optional configuration settings.
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The software, NIM microservices and materials are governed by the NVIDIA Software License Agreement and the Product-Specific Terms for NVIDIA AI Products, except that models are governed by the NVIDIA Community Model License. The NVIDIA RAG Dataset is governed by the NVIDIA Asset License Agreement. If this Blueprint is deployed using NVIDIA API endpoints on build.nvidia.com, use of the service is governed by NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement for the llama-3.1-nemoguard-8b-content-safety and llama-3.1-nemoguard-8b-topic-control models. The Llama 3.2 Community License Agreement for the nvidia/llama-3.2-nv-embedqa-1b-v2, nvidia/llama-3.2-nv-rerankqa-1b-v2 and llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct models. The Llama 3.3 Community License Agreement for the llama-3.3-nemotron-super-49b-v1 model. Built with Llama. Apache 2.0 for NVIDIA Ingest and for the nemoretriever-page-elements-v2, nemoretriever-table-structure-v1, nemoretriever-graphic-elements-v1, paddleocr and mixtral-8x22b-instruct-v0.1 models.
Connect AI applications to multimodal enterprise data with a scalable retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipeline built on highly performant, industry-leading NIM microservices, for faster PDF data extraction and more accurate information retrieval.