# Hugging Face — CPU Optimized Embeddings with 🤗 Optimum Intel and fastRAG

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: BGE, GTE, E5, Salesforce/SFR-Embedding-Mistral
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/intel-fast-embedding
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1927-cpu-optimized-embeddings-with-optimum-intel-and-fastrag

Hugging Face and Intel announce CPU-optimized embeddings using Optimum Intel and fastRAG, focusing on BGE models (small, base, large) to accelerate semantic search and RAG pipelines on Xeon CPUs.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/intel-fast-embedding:

> In this blog, we will show how to unlock significant performance boost on Xeon based CPUs, and show how easy it is to integrate optimized models into existing RAG pipelines using fastRAG.

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