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Qdrant Tests How Far EmbeddingGemma 2 Vectors Can Be Shrunk
ResearchOctober 6, 2026

Qdrant Tests How Far EmbeddingGemma 2 Vectors Can Be Shrunk

Qdrant says quantized full-size EmbeddingGemma 2 vectors kept 99% of their retrieval quality while using 30x less vector RAM. The vector database company tested Google's…

Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, a multimodal embedding model for on-device search
ModelsOctober 6, 2026

Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, a multimodal embedding model for on-device search

Google DeepMind has launched EmbeddingGemma 2, an open-weight multimodal embedding model that maps text, images, video frames and audio into a single vector space.…