Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai

Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2, a new open multimodal model that sets the standard for on-device efficiency. - our first open, natively multimodal embedding model - handles text, code, image, video, and audio tasks within a lightweight, modular 740M parameter form factor - ideal for offline, privacy-first RAG when paired with Gemma 4 - outperforms some specialist models more than twice its size Weights available now on Hugging Face.

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