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Zero-Backend AI: Running Local Embeddings, BM25, and Hybrid RRF Search 100% in the Browser

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Why pay monthly cloud bills for hosted vector databases when modern browsers can run quantized embeddings, an in-memory BM25 index, and reciprocal rank fusion locally? Here is the architecture, code, and trade-offs.
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