Hugging Face2026-05-16
Hugging Face releases Granite Embedding multilingual R2 with 32K context

AI Analysis
Hugging Face released two new multilingual embedding models in collaboration with IBM Granite: 311M and 97M parameter variants supporting 200+ languages with enhanced retrieval for 52 languages and code. Context length jumps to 32,768 tokens — a 64x increase over predecessors. Both models ship Apache 2.0.