wp vector search is a leaner, meaner vector search plugin for wordpress / woocommerce.
There are existing semantic / vector search options for wordpress / woocommerce users but they are based on existing vector search approaches which are either graph-based or LSH-based. Both incur great memory and update costs. There is a better, newer approach known as neural hashing, where we use a neural network to compute a hash to optimize collision between similar items. Storage is cheap, inference and updates are rapid, and relatively high accuracy can be achieved. Algolia has an article all about it here.
The goal of this project is to make a plug-and-play implementation of this new search technology accessible to over 43% of the internet 🤯 (yep, wordpress has a huge market share). Requiring less compute and storage, it will also be possible to deliver this at a lower cost than existing solutions.