embeddingfamily
Granite Embedding
IBM open retrieval models for enterprise search: English and multilingual embedders and a reranker, trained on permissively licensed data.
Levelfamily
Classembedding
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released4 Dec 2024
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive
Lineage
Granite Embedding Reranker English R2 belongs to this familyreranker4 Aug 2025149.61MGranite Embedding small English R2 belongs to this familyembedding17 Jul 202547.66MGranite Embedding 278M multilingual belongs to this familyembedding4 Dec 2024278.04MWhere this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.
Identity
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.
Architecture and Size
- Architecture
- dense transformer
- Total parameters
- – sources
- Active parameters
- –
- Checkpoint parameters
- –
- Note
- The multilingual R2 embedder is a separate AURION record (ibm-granite-embedding-multilingual-r2).
- Context length
- not in the notes
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).
Openness and Access
- Openness
- open weights permissive
- Licence
- Apache License 2.0 sources
- Access routes
- open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.
Deployment
- Runs on
- not in the notes
- Footprint
- not in the notes
- Runtimes
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.
Indonesia
- Indonesian support
- not stated
- Regional languages
- not in the notes
- Jakarta hosting
- unknown
- Languages
- Model card languages: en, ar, cs, de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, nl, pt, zh
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.
Benchmark Results
The notes record no benchmark result for this model.
Industry Use Cases
No industry use case links this model.
Links
DeveloperIBMbig tech, USA
IBMbig tech, USAModelGranite EmbeddingIBM, embedding
Granite EmbeddingIBM, embeddingUse CasesEmbeddings and Retrieval for SEA LanguagesPublic SectorUse cases of models in the same R&D topic; none is recorded for this model itself.
Who Runs Itnone recordedDeployments of these use cases; none names this model.
Models 3
Organisations 1
Sources
- replicate.com/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual https://replicate.com/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual
- ai.azure.com/catalog/models?task=rerank https://ai.azure.com/catalog/models?task=rerank
- huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual
- huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2 https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-embedding-small-english-r2
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Granite Embedding", https://aurion.semai.id/models/ibm-granite-embedding/, records of October 2026.