🐦 Colibri — Brazilian Portuguese Embeddings A tiny embedding model that punches far above its weight. Named after the colibri (hummingbird) — the smallest bird, yet it out flies much larger ones. ~157M params · 768 dim · plain SentenceTransformer (no adapters) · runs on a cheap CPU VPS Colibri is a compact Brazilian Portuguese text embedding model derived from google/embeddinggemma 300m . Despite being half the size , it matches or beats much larger multilingual embedders on MTEB BR — including 7B and 27B models — and is designed small on purpose so it runs comfortably on a simple CPU VPS , with no GPU required. Use cases: Portuguese semantic search, retrieval augmented generation ( RAG ), retrieval, reranking, clustering, semantic textual similarity (STS) and classification — for Brazilian Portuguese text across legal, tax, financial, medical, academic and general domains. ✨ Highlights 🏆 Beats bigger models on MTEB BR — including embeddinggemma 300m , and 7B / 27B multilingual embedders. 🪶 Half the footprint of embeddinggemma 300m : ~607 MB vs ~1.2 GB, and less RAM. 💻 Runs on a $ few/month CPU VPS — benchmarked on 4 vCPU / 16 GB (no GPU). 🔌 Plain SentenceTransformer — no adap…
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