[ENH]: FastEmbed embedding function support

[Anush008]

Description of changes

• New functionality
  • Adds support for FastEmbed - A lightweight, CPU-first embeddings library, to be used as an embedding function within Chroma. You can find the list of all the supported models here.

Test plan

• Unit test has been set up.

• Tests pass locally with pytest for python.

Documentation Changes

• Docstrings have been added.
• D̶o̶c̶s̶ P̶R̶ i̶s̶ a̶t̶ h̶t̶t̶p̶s̶:̶//g̶i̶t̶h̶u̶b̶.c̶o̶m̶/c̶h̶r̶o̶m̶a̶-̶c̶o̶r̶e̶/d̶o̶c̶s̶/p̶u̶l̶l̶/2̶3̶3̶. Moved the docs to this repo, since the former is archived now.

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[tazarov]

@Anush008, thanks for this. It looks good. Can I ask you to add a Docs PR—https://github.com/chroma-core/docs/pulls? I can add that, too.

[Anush008]

@Anush008, thanks for this. It looks good. Can I ask you to add a Docs PR—https://github.com/chroma-core/docs/pulls? I can add that, too.

Will do.

[Anush008]

Associated docs PR: chroma-core/docs#233.

[tazarov]

One tiny nit about batch size and threads

[Anush008]

Hi @tazarov. Just bumping this PR, since there are a lot of them.

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[tazarov]

LGTM

[Anush008]

Hello @tazarov. FYI, I've refactored the implementation into a separate file, as per the recent changes.