Alibaba also just released gte-large-en-v1.5 a 434M 1.62GB RAM model scoring 57.91 on retrieval. Beating out the snowflake-large by 2 whole points for +400MB extra RAM.
looks like we are in for a plataeu with the small embed models with no real performance jumps over the last months. snowflake-arctic-embed-medium being the sweetspot at 410M RAM scoring 54.91
https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard
looks like we are in for a plataeu with the small embed models with no real performance jumps over the last months. snowflake-arctic-embed-medium being the sweetspot at 410M RAM scoring 54.91