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Alibaba's gte-Qwen2-7B-instruct has claimed the top position on MTEB with ~70% overall score, excelling in retrieval (nDCG@10) and semantic textual similarity tasks. The 7B parameter model with 3584 dimensions outperforms NVIDIA's NV-Embed-v2 and Voyage AI's voyage-3-large.
Text embedding models have emerged as a distinct category in the AI stack, with MTEB standardizing evaluation across 8 task types. The top performers (gte-Qwen2, NV-Embed-v2, voyage-3-large) achieve ~70% overall scores with vector dimensions ranging from 768 to 4096, enabling specialized retrieval and semantic search applications.