diff --git a/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/extract_vector_points.rs b/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/extract_vector_points.rs
index 409df5dbd..7e2bd25c5 100644
--- a/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/extract_vector_points.rs
+++ b/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/extract_vector_points.rs
@@ -1,20 +1,22 @@
+use std::convert::TryFrom;
 use std::fs::File;
 use std::io;
 
 use bytemuck::cast_slice;
+use either::Either;
 use serde_json::from_slice;
 
 use super::helpers::{create_writer, writer_into_reader, GrenadParameters};
 use crate::{FieldId, InternalError, Result};
 
-/// Extracts the embedding vector contained in each document under the `_vector` field.
+/// Extracts the embedding vector contained in each document under the `_vectors` field.
 ///
 /// Returns the generated grenad reader containing the docid as key associated to the Vec<f32>
 #[logging_timer::time]
 pub fn extract_vector_points<R: io::Read + io::Seek>(
     obkv_documents: grenad::Reader<R>,
     indexer: GrenadParameters,
-    vector_fid: FieldId,
+    vectors_fid: FieldId,
 ) -> Result<grenad::Reader<File>> {
     let mut writer = create_writer(
         indexer.chunk_compression_type,
@@ -26,14 +28,26 @@ pub fn extract_vector_points<R: io::Read + io::Seek>(
     while let Some((docid_bytes, value)) = cursor.move_on_next()? {
         let obkv = obkv::KvReader::new(value);
 
-        // first we get the _vector field
-        if let Some(vector) = obkv.get(vector_fid) {
-            // try to extract the vector
-            let vector: Vec<f32> = from_slice(vector).map_err(InternalError::SerdeJson).unwrap();
-            let bytes = cast_slice(&vector);
-            writer.insert(docid_bytes, bytes)?;
+        // first we retrieve the _vectors field
+        if let Some(vectors) = obkv.get(vectors_fid) {
+            // extract the vectors
+            let vectors: Either<Vec<Vec<f32>>, Vec<f32>> =
+                from_slice(vectors).map_err(InternalError::SerdeJson).unwrap();
+            let vectors = vectors.map_right(|v| vec![v]).into_inner();
+
+            for (i, vector) in vectors.into_iter().enumerate() {
+                match u16::try_from(i) {
+                    Ok(i) => {
+                        let mut key = docid_bytes.to_vec();
+                        key.extend_from_slice(&i.to_ne_bytes());
+                        let bytes = cast_slice(&vector);
+                        writer.insert(key, bytes)?;
+                    }
+                    Err(_) => continue,
+                }
+            }
         }
-        // else => the _vector object was `null`, there is nothing to do
+        // else => the `_vectors` object was `null`, there is nothing to do
     }
 
     writer_into_reader(writer)
diff --git a/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/mod.rs b/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/mod.rs
index fdc6f5616..325d52279 100644
--- a/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/mod.rs
+++ b/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/mod.rs
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ pub(crate) fn data_from_obkv_documents(
     faceted_fields: HashSet<FieldId>,
     primary_key_id: FieldId,
     geo_fields_ids: Option<(FieldId, FieldId)>,
-    vector_field_id: Option<FieldId>,
+    vectors_field_id: Option<FieldId>,
     stop_words: Option<fst::Set<&[u8]>>,
     max_positions_per_attributes: Option<u32>,
     exact_attributes: HashSet<FieldId>,
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ pub(crate) fn data_from_obkv_documents(
                     &faceted_fields,
                     primary_key_id,
                     geo_fields_ids,
-                    vector_field_id,
+                    vectors_field_id,
                     &stop_words,
                     max_positions_per_attributes,
                 )
diff --git a/milli/src/update/index_documents/mod.rs b/milli/src/update/index_documents/mod.rs
index adbab54db..5b6e03637 100644
--- a/milli/src/update/index_documents/mod.rs
+++ b/milli/src/update/index_documents/mod.rs
@@ -304,8 +304,8 @@ where
             }
             None => None,
         };
-        // get the fid of the `_vector` field.
-        let vector_field_id = self.index.fields_ids_map(self.wtxn)?.id("_vector");
+        // get the fid of the `_vectors` field.
+        let vectors_field_id = self.index.fields_ids_map(self.wtxn)?.id("_vectors");
 
         let stop_words = self.index.stop_words(self.wtxn)?;
         let exact_attributes = self.index.exact_attributes_ids(self.wtxn)?;
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ where
                     faceted_fields,
                     primary_key_id,
                     geo_fields_ids,
-                    vector_field_id,
+                    vectors_field_id,
                     stop_words,
                     max_positions_per_attributes,
                     exact_attributes,
diff --git a/milli/src/update/index_documents/typed_chunk.rs b/milli/src/update/index_documents/typed_chunk.rs
index 0e2e85c1c..7d23ef320 100644
--- a/milli/src/update/index_documents/typed_chunk.rs
+++ b/milli/src/update/index_documents/typed_chunk.rs
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ use super::{ClonableMmap, MergeFn};
 use crate::error::UserError;
 use crate::facet::FacetType;
 use crate::update::facet::FacetsUpdate;
-use crate::update::index_documents::helpers::as_cloneable_grenad;
+use crate::update::index_documents::helpers::{as_cloneable_grenad, try_split_array_at};
 use crate::{lat_lng_to_xyz, CboRoaringBitmapCodec, DocumentId, GeoPoint, Index, Result, BEU32};
 
 pub(crate) enum TypedChunk {
@@ -241,7 +241,8 @@ pub(crate) fn write_typed_chunk_into_index(
             let mut cursor = vector_points.into_cursor()?;
             while let Some((key, value)) = cursor.move_on_next()? {
                 // convert the key back to a u32 (4 bytes)
-                let docid = key.try_into().map(DocumentId::from_be_bytes).unwrap();
+                let (left, _index) = try_split_array_at(key).unwrap();
+                let docid = DocumentId::from_be_bytes(left);
                 // convert the vector back to a Vec<f32>
                 let vector: Vec<f32> = pod_collect_to_vec(value);