Analytical search (Public Preview)

PreviewJun 30, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Analytical search, an orchestration capability in Cortex Agents that enables analytical queries over large document collections, is now in Public Preview. Traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches retrieve a small number of passages, which limits their ability to answer questions requiring comprehensive analysis, such as counts...

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