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Microsoft's Bing team open-sources "Harrier" embedding model

Apr 7, 2026Microsoft

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Microsoft's Bing team open-sources Harrier, an embedding model that tops the multilingual MTEB v2 benchmark and supports more than 100 languages. The article Microsoft's Bing team open-sources "Harrier" embedding model appeared first on The Decoder.

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