GTE
An open-source series of text embedding models released by Alibaba. GTE models support text vectorization for use cases such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and are available as free open-source releases.
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GTE comes from the paper "mGTE: Generalized Long-Context Text Representation and Reranking Models for Multilingual Text Retrieval" and is a BERT-style bidirectional encoder that replaces absolute position embeddings with RoPE, uses gated MLP, and applies layer normalization after each residual connection.
The GTE architecture underpins Alibaba's gte-*-v1.5 and gte-multilingual-* series as well as Snowflake's snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v2.0 checkpoints.
OpenAI's embeddings are paid, DeepSeek's embeddings are not open-source and can only be accessed by purchasing tokens, and Alibaba has open-sourced its GTE series of embedding models.
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GTE comes from the paper "mGTE: Generalized Long-Context Text Representation and Reranking Models for Multilingual Text Retrieval" and is a BERT-style bidirectional encoder that replaces absolute position embeddings with RoPE, uses gated MLP, and applies layer normalization after each residual connection.
50%UnverifiedThe GTE architecture underpins Alibaba's gte-*-v1.5 and gte-multilingual-* series as well as Snowflake's snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v2.0 checkpoints.
50%UnverifiedOpenAI's embeddings are paid, DeepSeek's embeddings are not open-source and can only be accessed by purchasing tokens, and Alibaba has open-sourced its GTE series of embedding models.
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