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Thursday, 14 May 2026

Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality

Hugging Face Blog 2 months ago

IBM released two open-source multilingual embedding models built on ModernBERT architecture: a 97-million-parameter compact model and a 311-million-parameter full-size model, both supporting 200+ languages and 32,768-token context windows. The 97M model achieves a 60.3 score on MTEB Multilingual Retrieval, outperforming all other open multilingual embedders under 100M parameters by 9.4 points compared to its nearest competitor. Both models are Apache 2.0 licensed and work as drop-in replacements in frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex, enabling 200+ language support with a single model name change.

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Violin: An open-source video translation skill that breaks language barriers

Together AI 2 months ago

Together AI released Violin, an open-source video translation tool that uses speech recognition, language models, and speech synthesis to translate video content across languages. The system processes videos through three stages—automatic speech recognition via Whisper V3, translation using DeepSeek V4 Pro, and speech generation with Cartesia's Sonic 3—and includes a chat assistant for querying video content. The tool is available as a web app, command-line interface, and agent skill under an MIT license, designed to address the gap where 66% of top YouTube videos are in English compared to 15% in Spanish.

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