This article highlights powerful embedding models that are free and open-source.
The models discussed in the article are Qodo-Embed-1, Multi-Functionality, Multi-Linguality, and Multi-Granularity model, Universal Sentence Encoder, Sentence-Transformers, and Instructor-Base.
These models can be used for various tasks such as code search, retrieval-augmented generation, search, semantic ranking, FAQ retrieval, real-time inference, and more.
All the models are available on HuggingFace and can be accessed through the sentence_transformers library.