Better Search Took This AI Agent From 36% to 98% Accuracy - Aamir Shakir, Mixedbread

Aamir Shakir of Mixedbread argues that the main limit on agent performance is access to the right data, not model intelligence. He explains why OCR, chunking, single-vector embeddings, and vector databases lose information at each step, and presents a late-interaction, multimodal retrieval approach that embeds document pages visually, with a live demo on Intel earnings reports and a hedge fund case study that raised answer accuracy from 36% to 98%.