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What is an embedding?

In short

An embedding is a way of representing text, images, or other data as a list of numbers that captures its meaning. Items with similar meaning end up close together in this numeric space, so software can measure how related two pieces of content are. Embeddings power semantic search, recommendations, and retrieval systems by letting computers compare meaning rather than exact words.

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