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#185 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian, LaBSE En Ru scores 28 vs 28.1 — about the same.
Released 2021-06-10. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (not specified licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
LaBSE En Ru is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from cointegrated, released Jun 2021.
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Giga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 0826 (open weights).