Embeddings are typically 384-3072 dimensions and are produced by dedicated embedding models (OpenAI text-embedding-3-large, BGE, jina-embeddings-v2, etc.). Self-hosted setups in 2026 commonly use BGE-small running locally (no cloud API call needed for indexing).
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