Grounding GenAI with vector search and RAG at scale

Everyone is using generative AI; almost no one fully trusts it. Stack Overflow faced that gap head-on, adding AI to 60 million community-validated questions and answers without destroying the trust developers rely on. The answer was to lead with search, not generation. This session walks through the retrieval-first architecture behind OverflowAI — Elasticsearch hybrid retrieval grounding Azure OpenAI — and what Elastic on Azure now offers teams building the same pattern.