macbook support?

[CrackedResearcher]

will this be able to run locally on macbook air m1 2020 model or we would need to deploy it on cloud?

[tomaarsen]

Hello!

It should run locally just fine, for example:

# pip install sentence-transformers
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

model = SentenceTransformer("sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2")

sentences = [
    "That is a happy person",
    "That is a happy dog",
    "That is a very happy person",
    "Today is a sunny day"
]
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)

similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings)
print(similarities.shape)
# [4, 4]

You can use any model from here: https://huggingface.co/models?library=sentence-transformers
(There might be a handful of exceptions, as some models use custom code that only runs on CUDA)

• Tom Aarsen