# Simon Willison — EmbeddingGemma 2

- Company: Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
- Announced: 2026-10-06T20:37:53+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/6/hn-49983751/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16274-embeddinggemma-2
- Subject: Commentary
- Models affected: EmbeddingGemma 2
- License: Apache 2.0

Simon Willison commented on Hacker News that he appreciates EmbeddingGemma 2 being under Apache 2.0 license, and argues that open-source embedding models are preferable to proprietary ones.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/6/hn-49983751/:

> I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license.

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