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EmbeddingGemma 2 embeds text, images, audio, and video in one 740M-parameter open model

Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2 on October 6, 2026, under Apache 2.0. The 740 million parameter model maps text, code, images, video, and audio into one embedding space and is built to run on a phone. It keeps the multilingual text quality of the first version, raises the MTEB Code score by almost ten points, and is already supported by llama.cpp, Ollama, MLX, vLLM, and transformers.js.

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Gemma passes a billion downloads and 100,000 derived models

On August 20, Google announced that the Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. In two years the community has published more than 100,000 derived models, and the most recent Kaggle competition drew more than 1,600 entries. An Awesome Gemma repository launched with the announcement, meant as an index of vetted projects, fine-tuned models, tutorials, and tools. The figure matters to someone building sites too, because a model you run on your own server stops being exotic, which makes text processing without sending data to a third party workable.

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