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AI Model Families: Pick an Embedding Model You Can Live With
Embedding choice is hard to reverse — re-embedding millions of documents is expensive — so optimize for retrieval quality on your data and provider stability.
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- 1The premise
- 2embedding
- 3recall@k
- 4re-embed cost
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Section 1
The premise
Once your corpus is embedded, switching costs real money and time; pick the embedding model on retrieval quality measured on your queries, not provider marketing.
What AI does well here
- Build a small retrieval-quality test from real queries
- Score candidates on recall@k for your data
- Estimate switch cost (re-embed at current corpus size)
- Recommend dimension and quantization tradeoffs
What AI cannot do
- Predict provider price or deprecation
- Replace tuning your chunking strategy
- Eliminate the need for hybrid retrieval
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