Google: Text Embedding 005
Text Embedding 005 is an embedding model from Google released on Aug 1, 2024. It reads text and writes vectors, with a 8K token context window.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- n/a
- Context
- 8K
- Max output
- 2K
- Released
- Aug 1, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Text Embedding 005 through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Temperature
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Text Embedding 005 questions
What is the context window of Text Embedding 005?
8,192 tokens of input, and it can write up to 1,536 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Is Text Embedding 005 open source?
No. Google serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Text Embedding 005 released?
Aug 1, 2024.
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Building on Text Embedding 005?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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