diff --git a/lib/main.dart b/lib/main.dart
index ef1870783..10531e961 100644
--- a/lib/main.dart
+++ b/lib/main.dart
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import 'package:photos/services/memories_service.dart';
 import 'package:photos/services/push_service.dart';
 import 'package:photos/services/remote_sync_service.dart';
 import 'package:photos/services/search_service.dart';
+import "package:photos/services/semantic_search_service.dart";
 import "package:photos/services/storage_bonus_service.dart";
 import 'package:photos/services/sync_service.dart';
 import 'package:photos/services/trash_sync_service.dart';
@@ -189,6 +190,7 @@ Future<void> _init(bool isBackground, {String via = ''}) async {
     });
   }
   FeatureFlagService.instance.init();
+  SemanticSearchService.instance.init();
 
   // Can not including existing tf/ml binaries as they are not being built
   // from source.
diff --git a/lib/services/semantic_search_service.dart b/lib/services/semantic_search_service.dart
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..40fcd508d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/services/semantic_search_service.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+import "dart:convert";
+import "dart:io";
+
+import "package:clip_ggml/clip_ggml.dart";
+import "package:flutter/services.dart";
+import "package:logging/logging.dart";
+import "package:path_provider/path_provider.dart";
+
+class SemanticSearchService {
+  SemanticSearchService._privateConstructor();
+
+  static final SemanticSearchService instance =
+      SemanticSearchService._privateConstructor();
+
+  late CLIP _clip;
+  final _logger = Logger("SemanticSearchService");
+
+  Future<void> init() async {
+    _clip = CLIP();
+    await _loadModel();
+    _testJson();
+  }
+
+  Future<void> _loadModel() async {
+    final clip = CLIP();
+    const modelPath =
+        "assets/models/clip/openai_clip-vit-base-patch32.ggmlv0.f16.bin";
+
+    final path = await _getAccessiblePathForAsset(modelPath, "model.bin");
+    final startTime = DateTime.now();
+    clip.loadModel(path);
+    final endTime = DateTime.now();
+    _logger.info(
+      "Loading model took: " +
+          (endTime.millisecondsSinceEpoch - startTime.millisecondsSinceEpoch)
+              .toString() +
+          "ms",
+    );
+
+    _testJson();
+  }
+
+  Future<void> _testJson() async {
+    final startTime = DateTime.now();
+    final input = {
+      "embedding": [1.1, 2.2],
+    };
+    _logger.info(jsonEncode(input));
+    final result = _clip.testJSON(jsonEncode(input));
+    final endTime = DateTime.now();
+    _logger.info(
+      "Output: " +
+          result +
+          " (" +
+          (endTime.millisecondsSinceEpoch - startTime.millisecondsSinceEpoch)
+              .toString() +
+          "ms)",
+    );
+  }
+
+  Future<String> _getAccessiblePathForAsset(
+    String assetPath,
+    String tempName,
+  ) async {
+    final byteData = await rootBundle.load(assetPath);
+    final tempDir = await getTemporaryDirectory();
+    final file = await File('${tempDir.path}/$tempName')
+        .writeAsBytes(byteData.buffer.asUint8List());
+    return file.path;
+  }
+}