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What are embeddings?

Embeddings are lists of numbers produced by a model to represent the meaning of a piece of text, arranged so that passages with similar meaning have similar vectors. A chatbot's knowledge base stores an embedding for every chunk; a customer's question is embedded the same way and the nearest chunks are retrieved as context for the answer.

Updated 29 Aug 2026 · 1 min read

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AUTOMATION AND AI

Embeddings

Embeddings are lists of numbers produced by a model to represent the meaning of a piece of text, arranged so that passages with similar meaning have similar vectors. A chatbot's knowledge base stores an embedding for every chunk; a customer's question is embedded the same way and the nearest chunks are retrieved as context for the answer.

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Why it matters

Embeddings are why a bot can match "do you open on Sunday" to a page that says "weekend hours" without a keyword in common. They also explain retrieval failures: a chunk that mixes several topics has a blurry vector and is retrieved for none of them, which is why chunk size and clean sources matter.

In VGraple CRM

Every knowledge base chunk is embedded when a source is added or refreshed and stored with the workspace; retrieval compares the question's embedding against them and returns the top five. This all happens server-side; the only decision left to you is what to put in the base and how to split it.

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Frequently asked questions

Do embeddings understand every language?
Multilingual models handle major Indian and European languages; matching across languages works best when the base and the question share a language.
Are embeddings the same as the chatbot model?
No. A small embedding model indexes and retrieves; a large language model writes the answer.
Do I pay per embedding?
Indexing costs are included in the plan; bring-your-own-key customers pay their provider for embedding calls.

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