Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context
IBM released Granite Embedding Multilingual R2, two Apache 2.0 multilingual embedding models built on ModernBERT. The compact 97M model beats all sub-100M multilingual embedders on MTEB retrieval (60.3), while the 311M model scores 65.2 (#2 among sub-500M open models). Both support 200+ languages, 32K context (64x R1), and include code retrieval across 9 programming languages.