Qwen3 Embedding 8B
HotAlibaba's flagship embedding model — #1 on MTEB multilingual leaderboard (score 70.58). 8B decoder-only transformer, 32K context, flexible 32–4096 dimension output. Outperforms all dedicated encoder models on 100+ language retrieval tasks.
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