BGE
BAAI · August 2023
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Why It Matters
Democratized high-quality text embeddings by providing open-source models that rivaled proprietary offerings, becoming a cornerstone of the open-source RAG ecosystem.
Description
BAAI's (Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence) open-source embedding model family that quickly became one of the most popular choices for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search. Competitive with proprietary embedding models while being freely available.
Key Innovations
embedding
retrieval