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Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal model expanding beyond text to unify code, images, video, and audio. Built on the Gemma 4 architecture with 740 million parameters and an Apache 2.0 license, it achieves a 9.92-point improvement on code performance. The model features an 8K token context window and supports dynamic vector truncation for storage efficiency.written, reviewed, cited
- Developers can dynamically truncate output vectors from 768 dimensions down to 512, 256, or 128 dimensions.
- The model processes up to 5.5 minutes of audio, 29 images, or 58 video frames within its 8K token context window.
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EmbeddingGemma 2 is a compact open model under the Apache 2.0 license that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a unified 768-dimensional space. Based on Gemma 4, this sub-1B model uses Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) to enable dynamic truncation down to 128 dimensions, achieving a 6x reduction in vector database storage requirements while retaining much of the original quality.written, reviewed, cited
- Video is sampled at 1 frame per second by default, and audio should be 16 kHz mono.
- At 128 dimensions, image, video, and speech retrieval quality drops to around 75%.
- EmbeddingGemma 2 scores 14% higher than EmbeddingGemma 1 on MTEB (Code).
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