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#96 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB French v1 · Classification · French, Granite Embedding 278M Multilingual scores 64 vs 64.1 — 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 278M Multilingual is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from IBM, released Dec 2024.
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).