Google Ships EmbeddingGemma 2 Tech Report: 740M Open Omnimodal Embedding Model

SRSchmidgall · x · 2026-11-06

Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 tech report details the full architecture, training recipe, and ablations behind its 740M open multimodal embedding model, covering unified representations for text, code, images, audio, and video; performance beating specialist and general models up to 12x larger; and on-device tricks like modular encoders, Matryoshka dimensions, and int4 quantization down to 567MB.

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