Google DeepMind releases EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for on-device use
AIGoogle DeepMind has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740 million parameter model that maps text, images, audio, and video into one embedding space. It is built on the Gemma 4 architecture under an Apache 2.0 license and supports an 8K token context window. The company reports a code benchmark gain from 68.76 to 78.68 on MTEB Code and says the model can run on-device with about 567MB of active RAM for the full multimodal version on a Google Pixel 11 Pro.
Why it matters: The release shows how a 740M-parameter embedding model can cover text, code, images, audio, and video on local hardware, with memory and storage figures to compare against other on-device options.