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#93 of 200 in Embeddings.
On RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages), Stella Base En v2 scores 29.9 vs 29.9 — about the same.
Released 2023-10-19. 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.
Stella Base En v2 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from infgrad, released Oct 2023.
Bge Base En v1.5 (better), Octen Embedding 8B (open weights).