Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, first open multimodal on-device embedding model

NVIDIAAI · x · 2026-10-07

Google DeepMind has released EmbeddingGemma 2, described as its first natively multimodal open model for on-device embeddings.

Beyond text, it unifies code, images, audio, and video in a shared vector space. NVIDIA's AI account publicly congratulated the team, underscoring the significance of an open, on-device multimodal embedding model for retrieval and search workloads.

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