GTE (Alibaba-NLP)

Alibaba DAMO Academy's GTE family — open-weight multilingual embedding models; gte-large/base/small + Qwen-based gte-Qwen2.

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At a glance

Type: Alibaba general text embeddings vendor fix
Tier: T3
Section: Embedding & reranker services
Created: 2023 vendor fix
Latest release: gte-modernbert-base / gte-reranker-modernbert-base (2025-01-20) — Hugging Face vendor fix
License: Apache-2.0 (Alibaba-NLP gte-multilingual, gte-modernbert, gte-Qwen2); MIT (original thenlper/gte-large/base/small) vendor fix
GitHub: searched not found vendor fix
Pricing: Free — open weights vendor fix
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Freshness: 2026-10-27 fix
Layer: model-infra repo fix
Licensing: open-source vendor fix
Deployment locus: local vendor fix
Platform vs product: platform vendor fix

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