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Cohere’s faster query model barely dents retrieval quality in its tests

September 30

Cohere released Embed 5 on Wednesday , giving teams the option to index data with Embed 5 Pro and query those same vectors with the faster, cheaper Embed 5 Fast without creating a second index.

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