Alibaba’s Qwen3-Embedding model ranks just behind Gemini on MTEB and is available under a permissive Apache 2.0 license (available for commercial purposes).

The company said the Codestral Embed “significantly outperforms leading code embedders” like Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0 and OpenAI ’s embedding model, Text Embedding 3 Large.

French startup Mistral AI on Wednesday unveiled Codestral Embed, its first code-specific embedding model, claiming it outperforms rival offerings from OpenAI, Cohere, and Voyage.

Embed 4 can be deployed in a virtual private cloud (VPC) or on-premises. It is integrated with Cohere’s work platform, North, and is also available on Microsoft’s developer hub, Azure AI ...