You're launching an embeddings API for developers building search and retrieval. What do you need to get right?

Embeddings are infrastructure that customers store and rebuild around. The interviewer wants retrieval quality on real tasks, multilingual coverage, cost, and above all a plan for version changes, because switching embeddings means re-indexing everything.

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