Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
embedding

multilingual-e5-small

Small multilingual E5 text embedding model for retrieval and similarity across about 100 languages.

Microsoft AIMicrosoft AIUSA
Microsoft AI
Levelmodel
Classembedding
Parameters117.65M
Contextnot in the notes
Released30 Jun 2023
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Industry Use Cases

Public Sector
Embeddings and retrieval for SEA languages

R&D Topics

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)used byText embeddings for semantic searchproduced by

Identity

Developer
Microsoft AI
Family
not in the notes
Released
30 Jun 2023 sourcesregistry date
Weights published
–
Record checked
12 Oct 2026
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
117.65M sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
Parameter count from the safetensors index on Hugging Face.
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
MIT License 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
listed by developer
Regional languages
Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Malay, Burmese, Sundanese, Thai, Tagalog, Vietnamese
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
Model card lists 94 languages, including Indonesian
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.

Lineage

The notes record no lineage for this model.

Sources

  1. huggingface.co/intfloat/multilingual-e5-small https://huggingface.co/intfloat/multilingual-e5-small
  2. docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/models/maas/... https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/models/maas/use-open-models

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Multilingual-e5-Small", https://aurion.semai.id/models/microsoft-multilingual-e5-small/, records of October 2026.