# The knowledge engine

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:::card{title="How Nexus works" href="/guides/the-knowledge-engine-how-it-works"}
Pinecone Nexus distills curated artifacts for retrieval, then answers with code over a retrieval SDK.
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:::card{title="Nexus curation" href="/guides/the-knowledge-engine-how-curation-works"}
Curation is the write path that turns sources into chunks and artifacts incrementally, driven by the manifest.
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:::card{title="Nexus model guidance" href="/guides/the-knowledge-engine-models"}
Learn how Pinecone Nexus uses models for generation, curation, and retrieval, and how to choose the right one.
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## Related pages

- [Account management](./account-management-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-2-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-index.md)
- [APIs](./apis-index.md)
- [Architecture](./architecture-index.md)
- [Assistants](./assistants-index.md)
- [Bring Your Own Cloud](./bring-your-own-cloud-index.md)
- [Build an assistant](./build-an-assistant-index.md)
- [Build an integration](./build-an-integration-index.md)
- [Changelog](./changelog-index.md)

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