how to migrate to the latest model?

Question

Text-embedding-002 is getting retired next year what are the migration steps? Should that be done manually as - deploying the model the text-3-large?

Answer 1

Hi @Mansi Gusain,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A forum!

To migrate from text-embedding-ada-002 to text-embedding-3-large, you'll need to manually generate new embeddings, as upgrading between embedding models is not automatic. The first step is to deploy the new model (text-embedding-3-large) within your Azure environment. After that, re-generate embeddings for all your data, as embeddings from the previous model will not be compatible with the new one. Once you have the new embeddings, you'll need to update any vector databases or search indexes you're using by re-indexing your data.

It's important to test your application to ensure the new model performs as expected and update any application logic that depends on the embeddings, such as similarity search or query handling. The migration should be carefully planned, especially in production, and might involve running both models in parallel during the transition.

Please refer to: Embeddings models.

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you any further queries.

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