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Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality

Hugging Face announces the release of two new multilingual embedding models from IBM: a 311M-parameter full-size model and a 97M-parameter compact model, both under Apache 2.0 license, supporting 200+ languages with 32K token context and improved retrieval quality.

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We're releasing two new multilingual embedding models: granite-embedding-311m-multilingual-r2 — A 311M-parameter full-size model with 768-dimensional embeddings, Matryoshka dimension support, and top-tier multilingual retrieval quality. granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2 — A 97M-parameter compact model with 384-dimensional embeddings that delivers strong retrieval quality for its size.

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14 May 2026 18:55 UTC