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Fast, Accurate, Lightweight Python library to make State of the Art Embedding

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Fast, Accurate, Lightweight Python library to make State of the Art Embedding

fastembed has 3.1k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 214 times. fastembed is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2023. fastembed is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are embeddings, openai, rag, retrieval.

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What is fastembed?

Fast, Accurate, Lightweight Python library to make State of the Art Embedding

Is fastembed open source?

fastembed is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is fastembed free?

Yes. fastembed is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does fastembed use?

fastembed is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

What language is fastembed written in?

fastembed is written mainly in Python.

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