Simon Willison 博客 · 10/6/2026, 8:37:53 PM
EmbeddingGemma 2 Released Under Apache 2.0 License
Google released EmbeddingGemma 2 under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. This move mitigates the risk of vendor lock-in for stored vector data and establishes a best practice for hybrid deployment: using hosted APIs while retaining open weights for local fallback.
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My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News.
I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license.
For embedding models in particular, I don't think it makes sense to use a closed, proprietary, hosted-only model.
Most applications of embedding models involve calculating thousands or even millions of embedding vectors and storing them for later comparison.
If your model is proprietary, the vendor is likely someday going to decide to stop offering that model. They'll have a better model to replace it, but you still need to pay to re-calculate those millions of stored existing vectors.
Notably, I don't want to host the model myself. I'd much rather pay a provider for a hosted model while knowing that if they ever stop hosting it I can run the open weights version myself - or find another vendor who can do that for me.
Tags: google, ai, generative-ai, embeddings, gemma