Open sparse embedding models remain rare; 2-year-old releases hit 4.5M downloads
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-09-17
antoinechaffin argues that open-source sparse embedding models are still too few, and new releases are good for the ecosystem. @prithivida notes they shipped 2 such models over 2 years ago, since integrated into chromaDB, haystack, Qdrant's fastembed, and the sentence-transformers ecosystem, with 4.5M total downloads.
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