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Introducing text and code embeddings

OpenAI just shipped embeddings. Here's why every AI app builder needs to care.

Reporting by OpenAI Blog 1 min brief
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Why it matters

OpenAI's new embeddings endpoint democratizes semantic search and clustering for developers—unlocking a new layer of AI capability beyond chat. This is infrastructure for the app layer.

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4 to know

  1. New API endpoint: text and code embeddings

  2. Use cases: semantic search, clustering, topic modeling, classification

  3. Published January 25, 2022

  4. Foundation for downstream applications rather than core model capability

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Publisher excerpt: We are introducing embeddings, a new endpoint in the OpenAI API that makes it easy to perform natural language and code tasks like semantic search, clustering, topic modeling, and classification.
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