diff --git a/Directory.Packages.props b/Directory.Packages.props
index d34f41597..18d630813 100644
--- a/Directory.Packages.props
+++ b/Directory.Packages.props
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@
   </ItemGroup>
   <!-- Semantic Kernel -->
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel" Version="1.10.0" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Abstractions" Version="1.10.0" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.OpenAI" Version="1.10.0" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel" Version="1.11.1" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Abstractions" Version="1.11.1" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Connectors.OpenAI" Version="1.11.1" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <!-- Documentation -->
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/extensions/AzureOpenAI/AzureOpenAIConfig.cs b/extensions/AzureOpenAI/AzureOpenAIConfig.cs
index d54a182d8..92b6468bf 100644
--- a/extensions/AzureOpenAI/AzureOpenAIConfig.cs
+++ b/extensions/AzureOpenAI/AzureOpenAIConfig.cs
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ public enum APITypes
     /// </summary>
     public int MaxRetries { get; set; } = 10;
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The number of dimensions output embeddings should have.
+    /// Only supported in "text-embedding-3" and later models developed with
+    /// MRL, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13147
+    /// </summary>
+    public int? EmbeddingDimensions { get; set; }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Set credentials manually from code
     /// </summary>
@@ -120,5 +127,10 @@ public void Validate()
         {
             throw new ConfigurationException($"Azure OpenAI: {nameof(this.MaxTokenTotal)} cannot be less than 1");
         }
+
+        if (this.EmbeddingDimensions is < 1)
+        {
+            throw new ConfigurationException($"Azure OpenAI: {nameof(this.EmbeddingDimensions)} cannot be less than 1");
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/extensions/AzureOpenAI/AzureOpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator.cs b/extensions/AzureOpenAI/AzureOpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator.cs
index 9056bf5a2..359827eed 100644
--- a/extensions/AzureOpenAI/AzureOpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator.cs
+++ b/extensions/AzureOpenAI/AzureOpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator.cs
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ public AzureOpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator(
                     modelId: config.Deployment,
                     endpoint: config.Endpoint,
                     credential: new DefaultAzureCredential(),
-                    httpClient: httpClient);
+                    httpClient: httpClient,
+                    dimensions: config.EmbeddingDimensions);
                 break;
 
             case AzureOpenAIConfig.AuthTypes.ManualTokenCredential:
@@ -67,7 +68,8 @@ public AzureOpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator(
                     modelId: config.Deployment,
                     endpoint: config.Endpoint,
                     credential: config.GetTokenCredential(),
-                    httpClient: httpClient);
+                    httpClient: httpClient,
+                    dimensions: config.EmbeddingDimensions);
                 break;
 
             case AzureOpenAIConfig.AuthTypes.APIKey:
@@ -76,7 +78,8 @@ public AzureOpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator(
                     modelId: config.Deployment,
                     endpoint: config.Endpoint,
                     apiKey: config.APIKey,
-                    httpClient: httpClient);
+                    httpClient: httpClient,
+                    dimensions: config.EmbeddingDimensions);
                 break;
 
             default:
diff --git a/extensions/OpenAI/OpenAIConfig.cs b/extensions/OpenAI/OpenAIConfig.cs
index 347e75fe3..4a15b6ebf 100644
--- a/extensions/OpenAI/OpenAIConfig.cs
+++ b/extensions/OpenAI/OpenAIConfig.cs
@@ -68,6 +68,13 @@ public enum TextGenerationTypes
     /// </summary>
     public int MaxRetries { get; set; } = 10;
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The number of dimensions output embeddings should have.
+    /// Only supported in "text-embedding-3" and later models developed with
+    /// MRL, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13147
+    /// </summary>
+    public int? EmbeddingDimensions { get; set; }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Verify that the current state is valid.
     /// </summary>
@@ -87,5 +94,10 @@ public void Validate()
         {
             throw new ConfigurationException($"OpenAI: {nameof(this.EmbeddingModelMaxTokenTotal)} cannot be less than 1");
         }
+
+        if (this.EmbeddingDimensions is < 1)
+        {
+            throw new ConfigurationException($"OpenAI: {nameof(this.EmbeddingDimensions)} cannot be less than 1");
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/extensions/OpenAI/OpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator.cs b/extensions/OpenAI/OpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator.cs
index 9369d74cd..957e161f5 100644
--- a/extensions/OpenAI/OpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator.cs
+++ b/extensions/OpenAI/OpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator.cs
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ public OpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator(
         this._client = new OpenAITextEmbeddingGenerationService(
             modelId: config.EmbeddingModel,
             openAIClient: openAIClient,
-            loggerFactory: loggerFactory);
+            loggerFactory: loggerFactory,
+            dimensions: config.EmbeddingDimensions);
     }
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -99,7 +100,8 @@ public OpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator(
         this._client = new OpenAITextEmbeddingGenerationService(
             modelId: config.EmbeddingModel,
             openAIClient: OpenAIClientBuilder.BuildOpenAIClient(config, httpClient),
-            loggerFactory: loggerFactory);
+            loggerFactory: loggerFactory,
+            dimensions: config.EmbeddingDimensions);
     }
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -123,7 +125,8 @@ public OpenAITextEmbeddingGenerator(
 
         this._client = new OpenAITextEmbeddingGenerationService(
             modelId: config.EmbeddingModel,
-            openAIClient: OpenAIClientBuilder.BuildOpenAIClient(config, httpClient));
+            openAIClient: OpenAIClientBuilder.BuildOpenAIClient(config, httpClient),
+            dimensions: config.EmbeddingDimensions);
     }
 
     /// <inheritdoc/>
diff --git a/service/Service/appsettings.json b/service/Service/appsettings.json
index 4a9c07526..a7d41d3f4 100644
--- a/service/Service/appsettings.json
+++ b/service/Service/appsettings.json
@@ -263,7 +263,11 @@
         "Deployment": "",
         // The max number of tokens supported by model deployed
         // See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/concepts/models
-        "MaxTokenTotal": 8191
+        "MaxTokenTotal": 8191,
+        // The number of dimensions output embeddings should have.
+        // Only supported in "text-embedding-3" and later models developed with
+        // MRL, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13147
+        "EmbeddingDimensions": null
       },
       "AzureOpenAIText": {
         // "ApiKey" or "AzureIdentity"
@@ -352,7 +356,11 @@
         // Change this to use proxies or services compatible with OpenAI HTTP protocol like LM Studio.
         "Endpoint": "",
         // How many times to retry in case of throttling
-        "MaxRetries": 10
+        "MaxRetries": 10,
+        // The number of dimensions output embeddings should have.
+        // Only supported in "text-embedding-3" and later models developed with
+        // MRL, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13147
+        "EmbeddingDimensions": null
       },
       "Postgres": {
         // Postgres instance connection string