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#162 of 220 in Embeddings.
On MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German, Text2vec Base Chinese Paraphrase scores 42.9 vs 43 — about the same.
Released 2023-06-22. 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.
Text2vec Base Chinese Paraphrase is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from shibing624, released Jun 2023.
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).