allow for creating index

app.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import rag
 import os
 import uuid
 import numpy as np
+import pinecone
 from pinecone import Pinecone, ServerlessSpec
 from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
 from transformers import AutoImageProcessor, AutoModel
@@ -35,8 +36,11 @@ pc = Pinecone(
     api_key=PINECONE_API_KEY
 )
 # Connect to an index
-index_name = "mutlimodal-minilm"
+index_name = "multimodal-minilm"
+if index_name not in pc.list_indexes().names():
+    pinecone.create_index(index_name, dimension=384, metric="cosine")
 INDEX = pc.Index(index_name)
+
 MODEL_STACK = [TEXT_MODEL, VISION_MODEL, VISION_MODEL_PROCESSOR, VLM, VLM_PROCESSOR]