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#68 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian, KaLM Embedding Multilingual Mini v1 scores 62.1 vs 62.5 — about the same.
Released 2024-08-27. 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.
KaLM Embedding Multilingual Mini v1 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from HIT-TMG, released Aug 2024.
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Giga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 0826 (open weights).