OpenAI releases text-embedding-ada-002
Released text-embedding-ada-002 — merged 5 models into 1, 1536 dimensions, 8192 context, price cut by 99.8% compared with davinci
Why it matters
Turned embeddings into a commodity and removed the cost barrier to the RAG boom
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Officialopenai.comhttps://openai.com/index/new-and-improved-embedding-model/Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week