Edit: looking at the press release, the improvement over old Ada is ... marginal? And Ada-01 is/was a poor performing model, tbh. I guess I'll have to run some tests, but at first sight it doesn't seem that wow-ey.
So just to be super clear, this is an embedding model. It generates no text. It’s not outputting words.
Maybe I am assuming incorrectly, but I think the poor performance you are referring to is the old Ada completion model, where the output is text. That was poor indeed.
Edit: looking at the press release, the improvement over old Ada is ... marginal? And Ada-01 is/was a poor performing model, tbh. I guess I'll have to run some tests, but at first sight it doesn't seem that wow-ey.