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Developers and AI teams wanting to build private, efficient, on-device multimodal search, retrieval, RAG, and semantic indexing systems
About EmbeddingGemma 2
EmbeddingGemma 2 is an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model designed to map text, code, images, video, and audio into a shared embedding space for search, retrieval, classification, routing, and RAG applications. Built on the Gemma 4 architecture and released under the Apache 2.0 license, it has 740 million parameters and is optimized for on-device inference. Its modular design can use as little as 270M parameters for text-only workloads, with optional vision and audio encoders for full multimodal support. Matryoshka Representation Learning lets developers reduce output vectors from 768 dimensions to 512, 256, or 128, lowering storage and memory requirements for local vector databases. The model supports an 8K-token context window and can process up to 5.5 minutes of audio, 29 images, 58 video frames, or interleaved combinations on local hardware.
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Google
Founded: 1998
United States
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