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Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Dr. Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD.
Originally published on Towards AI.
What are embeddings?
OpenAI just announced text-embedding-ada-002. This model replaces 5 previous best-performing embedding models and is available today through embeddings API! The endpoint for the AI will be /embeddings
curl https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings \ -X POST \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"input": "The food was delicious and the waiter…", "model": "text-embedding-ada-002"}'
And the response looks like this below —
{ "object": "list", "data": [ { "object": "embedding", "embedding": [ 0.0023064255, -0.009327292, …. (1056 floats total for ada) -0.0028842222, ], "index": 0 } ], "model": "text-embedding-ada-002", "usage": { "prompt_tokens": 8, "total_tokens": 8 }}
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