Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices
06-10-2026 21:15 via thenextweb.com

Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices

Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740-million-parameter model that maps text, code, images, audio and video into a single space and runs entirely on a phone or a small board. It is licensed under Apache 2.0, has had no safety tuning, and Google says performance is not equal across the 100 languages it supports. […]
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