Launch HN: Chonkie (YC X25) – Open-Source Library for Advanced Chunking
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Published: Jun 9, 2025 16:09
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Chonkie is an open-source library for chunking and embedding data, developed by Shreyash and Bhavnick. It aims to be lightweight, fast, extensible, and easy to use, addressing the limitations of existing libraries. It supports various chunking strategies, including token, sentence, recursive, semantic, semantic double pass, code, and late chunking. The project is YC X25 backed.
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View Original"We built Chonkie to be lightweight, fast, extensible, and easy. The space is evolving rapidly, and we wanted Chonkie to be able to quickly support the newest strategies."