Harrier – Microsoft Open-Sources Industry-Leading Embedding Model

Microsoft releases a new open-weight model that tops the MTEB leaderboard for the largest model (27b), but also includes smaller models that are top of their respect "weight" classes (hah!) -- 0.6b (embedding size 1024) and 270m (embedding size 640).

All have best-in-class context length, and the numbers look very impressive. Very excited to see this release!