Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context
IBM released Granite Embedding Multilingual R2 under Apache 2.0, offering two multilingual embedding models (97M and 311M parameters) built on ModernBERT. They support 200+ languages, 32K-token context, and code retrieval across 9 languages, with the 97M model being the best sub-100M multilingual embedder on MTEB.