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AI Models

Every service that searches or recommends products relies on one or more AI embedding models — labeled Nets in Panel. A Net converts text, images, or both into a vector; two products (or a query and a product) are considered similar when their vectors are close together. This page explains what each Net actually does, so the weights you set on a campaign’s Semantic Search section mean something concrete.

Turning Nets on

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Nets are activated per site under Site → AI methods in Panel — see Panel Configuration. A campaign can only be weighted toward a Net that’s already turned on for the site.

The Nets

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  • 🍵 Darjeeling Second Flush Net

    Text-to-text. Understanding query meaning and matching it against product text (title, description). Also powers query understanding — extracting brand, size, color, and price signals from what a shopper typed.

  • 🌋 Volcanic Water Net

    Text-to-image, image-to-image. A general-purpose, high-fidelity model that works across both text and visual matching — a strong default for most Text Search and Visual Search setups.

  • 🍇 Berry Punch Net

    Text-to-image, image-to-image. Similar range to Volcanic Water, tuned to be lighter and faster — a good choice when result speed matters more than maximum precision.

  • 🎨 Kiba Net

    Image-to-image. A small, fast model for pure visual similarity — grouped under Color in Panel and commonly used for color-aware matching.

  • ☕ Barraquito Net

    Image-to-text. Also grouped under Color in Panel, alongside Kiba — enabled per site via the same AI methods panel.

How weights work

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Each service campaign has separate weight sliders for text embeddings (product weights) and image embeddings (image weights). Turning on more than one Net and giving each a weight blends them: the final closeness between a query and a product is a weighted average across every active Net. Setting a Net’s weight to zero (or leaving it off) excludes it entirely.

There’s no single right combination — a text-heavy catalog with detailed descriptions benefits from a higher Darjeeling weight, while a highly visual catalog (fashion, home goods) benefits from leaning on Volcanic Water or Berry Punch. If you’re not sure where to start, Panel’s default configuration option when creating a campaign picks a sensible starting combination for you.

Where this shows up

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