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Google DeepMind Releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M Open Multimodal Embedding Model Built on Gemma 4

740M open multimodal embedding model ships today. Five input types, one vector space, Apache 2.0 license.

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Google DeepMind releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a production-ready open embedding model that unifies text, image, audio, video, and code into a single 768-dimensional space. Practitioners can now ground retrieval and search across modalities without proprietary APIs.

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  1. Model size: 740M parameters

  2. Output dimension: 768d embedding space

  3. Input types: 5 (text, image, audio, video, code)

  4. License: Apache 2.0 (open-weight)

  5. Built on Gemma 4 base

  6. Release date: October 6, 2026

  7. Shipped today (GA, not preview)

  8. EmbeddingGemma 2: 740M parameters

  9. Unifies 5 input modalities (text, image, audio, video, code)

  10. 768-dimensional output space

  11. Built on Gemma 4

  12. Apache 2.0 license (open-weight)

  13. Released October 6, 2026

  14. Google DeepMind source

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Publisher excerpt: Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 maps 5 input types into one 768d space and ships today under Apache 2.0.
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