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Search and vector · MIT (open source) · 12,310 stars

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Retrieval and Retrieval-augmented LLMs

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MIT No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2023.

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About and history
Repository
FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding · created Aug 2, 2023
Website
bge-model.com
Language
Python
Foundation
None; run by its maintainers
GitHub detects
MIT
Stars per week
17 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 9, 202612,310
Oct 26, 202612,289
Oct 19, 202612,261
Oct 12, 202612,239
Sep 28, 202612,210
Sep 21, 202612,194

Changes

Stars per weekNov 10, 2026

Gains about 17 stars a week, down from 19.

Stars per weekOct 31, 2026

Gains about 19 stars a week, up from 17.

Stars per weekOct 21, 2026

Gains about 17 stars a week, up from 15.

Stars per weekOct 13, 2026

Gains about 15 stars a week, down from 16.

Stars per weekOct 3, 2026

Gains about 16 stars a week.

TrackedSep 25, 2026

Now tracked, from FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding on GitHub.