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#109 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB English v2 · STS · English, E5 Large scores 82 vs 82.1 — about the same.
Released 2022-12-26. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
E5 Large is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from intfloat, released Dec 2022.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), QZhou Embedding (open weights).