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On MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French, GIST All MiniLM L6 v2 scores 28.1 vs 28.1 — about the same.
Released 2024-02-03. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
GIST All MiniLM L6 v2 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from avsolatorio, released Feb 2024.
E5 Base v2 (better), Multilingual E5 Base (open weights).