Retrieval and embedding quality on the official MTEB multilingual leaderboard. English v2 is secondary and drops out if it saturates. As of Oct 14, 2026, Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B & Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 & Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B are tied for state of the art in…
Badges for the leaders
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Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511
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Best page and recent changes
- Embeddings: Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B and Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 and Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B are co-SOTA
- Embeddings: Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B and Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 and Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B are co-SOTA
- Embeddings: Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B and Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 and Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B are co-SOTA
What can move this crown
- MTEB Multilingual v2 (MMTEB) — primary, weight 1
- MTEB English v2 — secondary, weight 0.45
Who is SOTA in Embeddings?
As of Oct 14, 2026, Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B & Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 & Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B are tied for state of the art in Embeddings (since Apr 1, 2026; sources MTEB Multilingual v2 (MMTEB); methodology v1.0).
Since when is the Embeddings crown current?
The current crown in Embeddings has held since Apr 1, 2026.