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#126 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages), Bge M3 Custom Fr scores 41.1 vs 41.8 — about the same.
Released 2024-04-11. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open.
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Bge M3 Custom Fr is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from manu, released Apr 2024.
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).