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On MIEB lite · Any-to-any Retrieval · English, Clip Vit Base Patch32 scores 21.5 vs 22.3 — about the same.
Released 2021-02-26. 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.
Clip Vit Base Patch32 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from OpenAI, released Feb 2021.
EmbeddingGemma 2 (better).