Open-Source Multimodal Embeddings: Google's 740M Model Rewrites the Math
Google DeepMind announced EmbeddingGemma 2 on October 6, 2026.
And it pushes open-source multimodal embedding models into genuinely practical territory: 740 million parameters, an Apache 2.0 license. And one unified 768-dimensional vector space covering text, code, images, video, and audio. The model is small enough for on-device inference and
