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.
gte-Qwen2-7B-instruct achieved ~70% overall MTEB score, topping 2000+ models
Dec 28, 2025Open-weight model with 3584 dimensions enables local deployment
Dec 28, 2025MTEB evaluation spans 56+ datasets across 8 task types for comprehensive assessment
Dec 28, 2025