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Our vector database costs more than our model calls. Engineering wants 256-dimension binary embeddings. What do we lose?

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Shorter and binary embeddings cut storage by orders of magnitude and lose a few points of retrieval. Decide with recall on your own queries and a rescoring step.

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Shorter and binary embeddings cut storage by orders of magnitude and lose a few points of retrieval. Decide with recall on your own queries and a rescoring step.

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