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On MIEB multilingual · Visual semantic similarity (English) · multilingual (13 languages), Clip Vit Base Patch32 scores 54.4 vs 55.4 — 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.
Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano (better), Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small (open weights).