Google DeepMind releases EmbeddingGemma 2

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Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2 — a 740 million-parameter open model (Gemma 4 architecture, Apache 2.0) that maps text, code, images, audio and video into one embedding space

Why it matters

Company-reported MTEB Code rose from 68.76 to 78.68; context is 8K (4 times its predecessor), and MRL lets the 768 dimensions shrink to 128, cutting storage by up to 6 times. Quantized, it runs on a Pixel 11 Pro in about 191MB of RAM for text only and about 567MB for the full multimodal model, bringing on-device multimodal search to open weights

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Officialdeepmind.googlehttps://deepmind.google/blog/embeddinggemma-2-an-open-lightweight-multimodal-embedding-model/

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