Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality

Granite Embedding Multilingual R2 is an open-source multilingual embedding model released by IBM under the Apache 2.0 license, featuring a 32K context window and sub-100M parameters. The model is optimized for retrieval tasks and provides state-of-the-art performance among compact embedding models across multiple languages. It is available on Hugging Face and designed to balance efficiency with high-quality multilingual semantic understanding for information retrieval applications.

Source: Hugging Face | 2026-05-14