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Understanding Embeddings: The Backbone of Modern AI Retrieval Systems

In the last few years, embeddings have become one of the most essential building blocks in AI systems, most especially in Search, Recommendation Engines, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG. If you have worked with semantic search, vector databases, or LLM-powered assistants, you have already relied on embeddings, whether you know it or not.

In this blog, we’ll break down:

What embeddings really are
Sparse vs Dense Embeddings
How Embedding Retrieval Works
What embedding-based retrieval means in practice
What are embeddings in RAG

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