text-embedding-ada-002

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About this model

text-embedding-ada-002 outperforms all the earlier embedding models on text search, code search, and sentence similarity tasks and gets comparable performance on text classification.

Key model capabilities

• Text search
• Code search
• Sentence similarity tasks
• Text classification

Note: this model can be deployed for inference, specifically for embeddings, but cannot be finetuned.