Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality
IBM releases two Apache 2.0 open-source multilingual embedding models, where the 97-million-parameter compact version outperforms all models of similar size on various benchmarks, demonstrating the huge potential of 'small but mighty' models for specific tasks.
Hugging Face Blog · May 15, 2026