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Anawords graphic: EmbeddingGemma 2. Open model for text, images, audio and video, 740M parameters. Confirmed by official source.

Open source

Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model that maps text, images, audio and video into one search space

The 740-million-parameter model is free to use under Apache 2.0. Google says its text-only part runs in about 191MB of memory on a phone.

11 Oct 2026, 20:23 IST · ✓ Source-checked · 2 sources

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