text-embedding-3-large vs bge-m3 vs Jina v3, Matryoshka truncation, and cosine vs dot pitfalls.
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Embeddings in 2025-26: how do you choose model, dimensions, and distance?
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Use Matryoshka-capable models (text-embedding-3-large, bge-m3, Jina v3) — store 3072d but truncate to 1024/256 at query time without re-embedding. Normalize and use cosine/dot.
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