Qwen3-Embedding
A family of text embedding models released by Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen team, including versions at different scales such as 0.6B and 8B. It supports multiple languages and long contexts.
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Qwen3-Embedding, EmbeddingGemma 2, and nomic-embed-text v1.5 are all Apache 2.0 licensed, BGE-M3 is MIT licensed, and all can be used directly in commercial products; EmbeddingGemma v1 is governed by the Google Gemma terms; jina-embeddings-v5-text-small uses the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, and commercial use requires obtaining a separate license.
Fine-tuning of EmbeddingGemma and Qwen3-Embedding will now save the model's built-in query and document prompts instead of empty prompts.
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Qwen3-Embedding, EmbeddingGemma 2, and nomic-embed-text v1.5 are all Apache 2.0 licensed, BGE-M3 is MIT licensed, and all can be used directly in commercial products; EmbeddingGemma v1 is governed by the Google Gemma terms; jina-embeddings-v5-text-small uses the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, and commercial use requires obtaining a separate license.
50%UnverifiedFine-tuning of EmbeddingGemma and Qwen3-Embedding will now save the model's built-in query and document prompts instead of empty prompts.
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