EmbeddingGemma 2
Open-weight 740M-parameter multimodal embedding model built on Gemma 4 that encodes text, images, audio, and video for on-device search.
Overview
EmbeddingGemma 2, released by Google on October 6, 2026, extends the original EmbeddingGemma beyond text into images, audio, and video, mapping all four modalities into a shared 768-dimensional embedding space. Built on the Gemma 4 architecture and released under Apache 2.0, it is designed for on-device, offline semantic search and retrieval so that local file and media search no longer depends on a cloud round trip.
This is a sourced directory entry. Features and capabilities are reported in the linked sources; this entry does not document independent Aymorphic testing.
Key features
- 740M total parameters: 270M text-only core plus optional 170M vision and 300M audio encoders
- Unified 768-dimensional embedding space across text, image, audio, and video
- Apache 2.0 open-weight license
- ~191MB active RAM for text-only inference on a Google Pixel 11 Pro; ~567MB for the full multimodal suite
- 9.92-point improvement on the MTEB Code benchmark over prior Gemma embedding models
Use cases
- On-device semantic search across photos, audio, and video
- Local codebase indexing and developer agent retrieval
- Offline RAG pipelines without cloud dependency
Pricing
Free, open-weight model under Apache 2.0.
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Dates and sources
- Released
- 6 Oct 2026
- Record updated
- 13 Oct 2026
- Record last checked
- 13 Oct 2026