File search vs knowledge retreival

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File search + vector store confusion

assistants: an endpoint with individual assistants that are a collection of instructions. files endpoint: where you upload any files to be used, with several purposes besides assistants. vector store: the places where your chunked document files go. When you add uploaded files to a vector database, text extraction is performed, chunking is performed on the text, and embeddings metadata is added allowing semantic search on those pieces to find the most relevant results. File search: the functi…