Alibaba open-sources 3 Ovis multimodal embedding models under Apache 2.0
AdinaYakup · x · 2026-09-23
Alibaba's ATH MaaS released three Ovis universal multimodal embedding models, all Apache 2.0 licensed and live on Hugging Face:
- Omni-3B: built on Qwen 2.5 Omni, supports audio input, self-reported MMEB-v3 58.46 (+5.19 over best baseline)
- VL-2B: based on Qwen 3.5 2B, best value, MMEB-v2 77.46
- VL-9B: based on Qwen 3.5 9B, highest accuracy at MMEB-v2 81.13
An accompanying paper (arXiv:2609.25165) is available; all scores are self-reported.
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