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IBM's Granite Embedding Multilingual R2 ships with a 64x context window jump, ModernBERT architecture, and Apache 2.0 licensing that makes it enterprise-safe out of the box.
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IBM's Granite Embedding Multilingual R2 ships with a 64x context window jump, ModernBERT architecture, and Apache 2.0 licensing that makes it enterprise-safe out of the box.

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