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#73 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB French v1 · STS · French, GIST Embedding v0 scores 72.1 vs 72.3 — about the same.
Released 2024-01-31. 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 Embedding v0 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from avsolatorio, released Jan 2024.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better).