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

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2026-05-14T18:55:01+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: granite-embedding-311m-multilingual-r2, granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2
- License: Apache 2.0
- Context window: 32,768 tokens
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-multilingual-r2
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1503-granite-embedding-multilingual-r2-open-apache-2-0-multilingual-embeddings-with

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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-multilingual-r2:

> 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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