Simon Willison praises EmbeddingGemma 2 for being released under the Apache 2.0 license, emphasizing why open-licensed embedding models matter. He argues that proprietary hosted-only embedding models risk vendor lock-in, since re-embedding millions of stored vectors becomes costly if a provider discontinues a model.
Background
EmbeddingGemma 2 is Google's open embedding model built on the Gemma 2 architecture, released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, making it freely usable and modifiable.
- Source
- Simon Willison
- Published
- Oct 7, 2026 at 04:37 AM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10