Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices
THE SO WHAT
A 740M-parameter, Apache 2.0, fully on-device multimodal embedding model means you can ship rich retrieval and similarity without a network call — and without vendor lock on vector IP. The lack of safety tuning shifts responsibility to you: evals, filters, and misuse constraints now live in your app layer.
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