Music and soundGGUF2022–2026
m-a-p (Multimodal Art Projection) · UK / China
A music encoder: turns a track into a numeric representation used to detect genre, mood, key and rhythm. MERT-v2 handles full songs up to 6 minutes.
- Automatic tagging of a music catalog
- Finding similar tracks
- Detecting genre, mood and tempo
- Sizes
- 95M – 632M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Visual document searchGGUF2026
Tencent · China
Tencent models based on Qwen3.5 for searching scans and PDFs as images. According to the model card, among the top of the ViDoRe leaderboard at release.
- Search across scans and PDFs without OCR
- RAG over reports with tables and charts
- Search across document archives
- Sizes
- 4.5B – 8B
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Search and RAGRU2024–2026
Sber (SberDevices) · Russia
Sber embeddings built for Russian: according to the developers, among the best on Russian-language search benchmarks. FRIDA is compact, Giga-Embeddings is more powerful.
- Search across Russian-language documents
- RAG for chatbots in Russian
- Classifying requests and reviews
- Sizes
- 480M – 10B-A1.8B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRU2025–2026
NVIDIA · USA
NVIDIA embeddings for search and RAG. Nemotron-3-Embed, released in 2026, is under the permissive OpenMDW license and works in many languages.
- Search across corporate documents
- RAG for chatbots and assistants
- Search across images and pages (VL versions)
- Sizes
- 1B – 8B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUGGUF2023–2026
Jina AI · Germany
Strong multilingual embeddings with long context; v5-omni understands text, images and audio. Recent versions are open for non-commercial use only.
- Search across documents in many languages
- Search across images and scans
- Classification and clustering
- Sizes
- 33M – 3.8B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllama2024–2026
IBM · USA
Lightweight IBM embeddings for enterprise search, trained on data with clear rights. R2, released in 2026, became multilingual.
- Search across corporate documents
- RAG on a regular server without a GPU
- Reranking results
- Sizes
- 30M – 311M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGGGUF2025–2026
Octen · USA / Singapore
Qwen3-Embedding models fine-tuned by the startup Octen for search in legal, financial and medical texts. As of January 2026 the 8B version topped the RTEB leaderboard.
- Search across contracts and case law
- Search across financial reports
- Search across long documents up to 32K tokens
- Sizes
- 0.6B – 8B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGGGUF2026
Perplexity · USA
Embeddings from the Perplexity search service. Some versions take into account the context of the whole document, not just a single fragment.
- Search across large document collections
- RAG that accounts for document context
- Website and catalog search
- Sizes
- 0.6B – 4B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRU2026
Microsoft · USA
Microsoft's 2026 multilingual embeddings with context up to 32K tokens; Russian is on the language list. The 270M and 0.6B versions run on a regular server, 27B is the most accurate.
- Multilingual knowledge base search
- Picking passages for RAG
- Search across long documents
- Sizes
- 270M – 27B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllama2025–2026
Alibaba (Qwen) · China
Embeddings and rerankers based on Qwen3, among the best open ones for multilingual search, including Russian. VL versions search images, screenshots and video.
- Knowledge base search for RAG
- Reranking results before answering
- Search across scans, slides and screenshots
- Sizes
- 0.6B – 8B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAG2026
Voyage AI (MongoDB) · USA
The only open model in the Voyage 4 line: its vectors are compatible with the paid larger versions, so you can start locally and move to the API later.
- Document search on your own server
- RAG for small knowledge bases
- Finding similar texts
- Sizes
- about 340M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Computer vision2025
Meta · USA
Meta's family of encoders for images and video, and with PE-AV also for audio. PE-Core searches by text more accurately than SigLIP 2 (per Meta); small versions are available.
- Search photos and videos by description
- Catalog labeling and tagging
- Search across audio and video (PE-AV)
- Sizes
- size not stated on the model card
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Computer vision2023–2025
Meta · USA
Meta's open reproduction of CLIP with a transparent data collection recipe. MetaCLIP 2 is trained on multilingual data from around the world. Non-commercial license only.
- Image search by text
- Image classification without training
- Search research and prototypes
- Sizes
- 0.15B – 3.6B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllama2024–2025
Mixedbread · Germany
Embeddings and rerankers from Germany's Mixedbread. mxbai-embed-large is one of the most downloaded English search models; the v2 rerankers cover 100+ languages, including Russian.
- Search across a knowledge base
- Reranking results before a bot answers
- Product catalog search
- Sizes
- 17M – 1.5B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Visual document search2025
Illuin Technology, EPFL, CentraleSupélec · France
A compact (250M) model for searching document pages as images. According to the authors, it matches models 10 times larger and runs without a GPU.
- Search across scans and PDFs on a modest server
- Indexing document archives
- Search across slides and manuals
- Sizes
- 250M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGOllama2025
Google · USA
A small multilingual embedding model based on Gemma 3 that runs even on a phone or laptop without internet.
- On-device document search
- RAG without sending data outside
- Text classification
- Sizes
- 300M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGOllama2023–2025
BAAI (Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence) · China
Some of the most popular embeddings for search and RAG. The main v1.5 versions target English and Chinese; for Russian, BAAI has a separate model, bge-m3.
- Search across English-language documents
- Picking passages for chatbot answers (RAG)
- Code search (bge-code)
- Sizes
- 24M – 9B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Visual document search2024–2025
Illuin Technology (ViDoRe team) · France
Searches PDFs and scans as images: pages do not need to be OCR'd first, the model finds the right one for a question directly, including tables and charts. Trained on English.
- Search across scans, presentations and PDFs
- RAG over documents with tables and charts
- Search across technical documentation
- Sizes
- 256M – 3B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGGGUF2024–2025
TechWolf · Belgium
A model from a Belgian HR company: it turns job titles into vectors so you can find similar vacancies and resumes. A human makes the decision about a candidate; automatic screening without review must not be used.
- Matching job titles coming from different sources
- Finding similar vacancies and resumes by meaning
- Cleaning up the company job title reference list
- Sizes
- 109M – 278M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text analysisRU2023–2025
deepvk (VK) · Russia
Russian encoders from the VK team: RuModernBERT reads long texts, USER produces vectors for search, GeRaCl classifies texts by topic without training.
- Classifying requests without labeled data
- Knowledge base search in Russian
- Analyzing long contracts
- Sizes
- 35M – 360M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Rerankers2023–2025
Stanford NLP, later Answer.AI and LightOn · USA and France
A different search principle: every word of the question is compared with every word of the document, not the two texts as a whole. The index is heavier than with ordinary embeddings. The model cards list English.
- Search across a knowledge base of long documents
- Reordering retrieved passages
- Search across policies and technical documentation
- Sizes
- about 33M – 150M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllama2024–2025
Nomic AI · USA
Fully open embeddings, with weights, data and training code. v2 is multilingual on MoE; there are versions for code and for searching PDF pages.
- Search across documents and a knowledge base
- Code search
- Search across scans and PDFs without text recognition
- Sizes
- 137M – 7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Visual document search2025
Nomic AI · USA
Search across PDF pages and scans as images. The cards list English, Italian, French, German and Spanish — Russian is not among them.
- Search across an archive of scans and PDFs
- Search across tables and diagrams inside documents
- Picking pages for an AI assistant answer
- Sizes
- 3B and 7B
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Computer vision2023–2025
Google · USA
Models that map images and text into a shared space: you can search photos by words and classify images without training. OpenAI's CLIP (2021) is the predecessor.
- Image search by text query
- Automatic catalog labeling and tagging
- Filtering prohibited content
- Sizes
- about 0.2B to 2B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAG2025
The authors of the CareerBERT paper, German universities · Germany
A German-language model that matches a resume to occupations from the European ESCO reference list and suggests suitable directions. A human makes the decision about a candidate; automatic screening without review must not be used.
- Suggesting occupations that fit the candidate experience
- Matching resumes against job descriptions
- Hints on internal career moves
- Sizes
- 110M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRU2023–2025
Alibaba · China
Alibaba embeddings and rerankers for search: from tiny to 7B based on Qwen2. There is a multilingual mGTE version with long context.
- Semantic search across documents
- Reranking search results
- Clustering and classifying texts
- Sizes
- 33M – 7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllama2019–2025
UKP Lab (TU Darmstadt), later Hugging Face · Germany
The classic for meaning-based search: small, fast models that run even on a modest server without a GPU. The multilingual versions understand Russian.
- Search across a knowledge base and FAQ
- Finding similar tickets and duplicates
- Grouping reviews and requests by topic
- Sizes
- about 20M – 470M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Visual document search2025
LlamaIndex · USA
A small model for searching document pages as images, from the team behind a popular RAG framework. The card lists English, Italian, French, German and Spanish.
- Search across scans and PDFs without OCR
- Search across invoices, acts and contracts
- Picking pages for an AI assistant answer
- Sizes
- 2B (based on Qwen2-VL)
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Music and sound2024
Tencent AI Lab · China
The MuQ music encoder and the MuQ-MuLan model, which matches music and text: you can search for tracks by a description in English or Chinese.
- Searching music by text description
- Tagging tracks by genre and mood
- Finding similar music
- Sizes
- 300M – 700M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllama2024
Snowflake · USA
Snowflake embeddings built specifically for search. Version 2.0 is multilingual (Russian is on the language list), handles long texts up to 8K tokens and can compress vectors.
- Search across documents and knowledge bases
- Picking passages for RAG
- Search across reports and internal data
- Sizes
- 22M – 568M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAG2024
TechWolf · Belgium
Finds mentions of skills in a vacancy or resume text and maps them to the company skill reference list. A human makes the decision about a candidate; automatic screening without review must not be used.
- Extracting skills from a job description
- Matching candidate skills against requirements
- Building a competence map across departments
- Sizes
- 109M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Visual document search2024
Alibaba (Tongyi Lab) · China
One vector for text, for an image and for a text-image pair: a single model can find a product by photo, a document page by question and an image by description. The card lists English and Chinese.
- Finding a product by photo
- Search across a catalogue of images and cards
- Search across document pages as images
- Sizes
- 2B and 7B
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Visual document search2024
TIGER-Lab · Canada
Turns an image-plus-text model into an embedding model: one vector for a page, a diagram or a captioned photo. The card states English.
- Search across a mixed archive of texts and images
- Search across document pages as images
- Finding similar cards and illustrations
- Sizes
- about 4B (based on Phi-3.5-V)
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Visual document search2024
University of Waterloo, Tevatron project · Canada
Searches page screenshots: the page is not OCRed but turned into a single vector, so the index is more compact than with late-interaction models. The card lists English and French.
- Search across scans and PDFs without OCR
- Search across presentations and reports with complex layouts
- Picking pages for an AI assistant answer
- Sizes
- 2B (based on Qwen2-VL)
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Text analysisRUNot maintained2020–2024
SberDevices (ai-forever) · Russia
Sber's Russian-language encoders trained on large Russian corpora. A base for classifiers, NER and semantic search in Russian.
- Classifying requests in Russian
- Extracting names, amounts and dates after fine-tuning
- Detecting review sentiment
- Sizes
- about 30M to 430M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUNot maintained2022–2024
Microsoft · USA
Proven models for semantic search. The multilingual versions work well with Russian and are still a reliable base for RAG.
- Search across a knowledge base and documents
- Finding answers for a chatbot (RAG)
- Finding similar requests and duplicates
- Sizes
- 33M – 7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllamaNot maintained2024
BAAI · China
A model for meaning-based search in about a hundred languages. The core of RAG: the bot finds the right part of a document before answering.
- Search across a document base
- RAG for a chatbot
- Finding similar requests and duplicates
- Sizes
- 568M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
RerankersNot maintained2023
NetEase Youdao · China
An embedding-plus-reranker pair for knowledge bases. The card lists English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean — Russian is not among the stated languages.
- Search across a knowledge base and reference materials
- Reordering retrieved passages
- Picking answers for a support chatbot
- Sizes
- about 280M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Music and soundNot maintained2023
LAION · Germany
CLIP for audio: maps audio and text into a shared space. Lets you search sounds and music by description and classify them without training. Text must be in English.
- Search sounds and music by description
- Automatic tags for an audio library
- Recognizing sound types (siren, breaking glass, voice)
- Sizes
- size not stated on the model card
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Music and soundNot maintained2022
MIT · USA
A classic 2021 sound recognition model: detects 527 AudioSet event classes (siren, barking, breaking glass, music). Lightweight, runs without a GPU, in Transformers since 2022.
- Sound event recognition
- Tagging an audio archive
- Detecting alarm sounds
- Sizes
- about 87M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Computer visionNot maintained2021–2022
OpenAI · USA
The 2021 model that first linked images and text: search photos by words and classify them without training. English only; SigLIP 2 or PE are usually chosen today.
- Image search by text query
- Automatic tags for a catalog
- Finding similar images
- Sizes
- about 0.15B – 0.6B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Computer visionRUNot maintained2022
Sber AI and SberDevices (ai-forever) · Russia
A Russian version of CLIP: matches images with Russian captions. Lets you search photos by description and sort images into categories without training.
- Product search by photo and by Russian description
- Sorting images into categories without labeling
- Checking that a photo matches its caption
- Sizes
- 150M – 430M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text analysisRUNot maintained2021
David Dale (cointegrated) · Russia
A very small Russian-English BERT that runs fast on a regular CPU. Ready-made fine-tuned versions exist for sentiment, toxicity and emotions.
- Detecting review sentiment
- Filtering rude chat messages
- Fast classification of requests
- Sizes
- 12M – 29M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
