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#104 of 200 in Embeddings.
On BEIR · Retrieval · English, Gte Small scores 49.5 vs 49.9 — about the same.
Released 2023-07-27. 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.
Gte Small is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from thenlper, released Jul 2023.
Bge Base En v1.5 (better), NV Embed v2 (open weights).