Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 drops the Gemma licence gate, and gains 0.21 on multilingual text

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 07 Oct, 14:45 UTC

Google's new on-device embedding model can be downloaded without asking Google first, and the previous one still needs Google's approval. The Hugging Face record for google/embeddinggemma-2 carries the tag license:apache-2.0 with gating set to false, while the record for EmbeddingGemma 1 carries…