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What I don’t understand is why is an API needed to create embeddings. Isn’t this something that could be done locally?
by bbotond 3y ago
What I don’t understand is why is an API needed to create embeddings. Isn’t this something that could be done locally?
- thorum 3y agoIt’s cheaper to use OpenAI. If you have your own compute, sentence-transformers is just as good for most use cases.
- merpnderp 3y agoSure, but I don't know of any models you can get local access to that work nearly as well.
- pantulis 3y agoYou would need to have a local copy of the GPT model, which are not exactly OpenAI's plans.
- jerrygenser 3y agoFor embeddings, you can use smaller transformers/llms or sentence2vec and often get good enough results. You don't need very large models to generate usable embeddings.
- pantulis 3y agoYou are correct, I assumed parent was referring to specific embeddings generated by OpenAI LLMs.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoYes. The best public embedding model is decent, but I expect it’s objectively worse than the best model from OpenAI.