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#116 of 200 in Embeddings.
On JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese, Granite Embedding 107M Multilingual scores 77 vs 77.1 — about the same.
Released 2024-12-18. 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.
Granite Embedding 107M Multilingual is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from IBM, released Dec 2024.
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Ja Embed Sts (open weights).