Google open-sources EmbeddingGemma 2: 740M multimodal embeddings that run fully on-device
minchoi · x · 2026-10-07
Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model with 740M parameters that runs fully on-device—no cloud, no data leaving your machine.
- On-device inference makes it privacy-friendly by design
- Demo: find exact video moments using only voice queries (semantic video search)
- Weights and docs are live on Hugging Face and the Google blog
A compact open option worth watching for local RAG, video search, and on-device semantic retrieval.
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