Gecko

Google DeepMind · 2024 · Embeddings · USA / UK

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A · App: No
B · Built By: Google DeepMind
C · CEO & Politics: Koray Kavukcuoglu (SVP, day-to-day lead) — No public partisan activity documented
D · Date: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: USA / UK
K · Key Staffers: Demis Hassabis (Chair, GDM; Chief Scientist, Alphabet), Shane Legg (Co-Founder, Chief AGI Scientist), Lila Ibrahim (COO), Sundar Pichai (Alphabet CEO)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Embeddings
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Proprietary
P · Pricing: [UNKNOWN]
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Google DeepMind's Gecko, a compact text embedding model trained by distilling knowledge from large language models: an LLM generates synthetic query-passage pairs, then relabels positive and hard-negative passages; on the MTEB benchmark the 256-dimension version beat all existing 768-dimension entries, and the 768-dimension version scored 66.31, competitive with 7x larger models.
S · Stock / Status: $344 (GOOGL, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: API only
X · X Handle: @GoogleDeepMind
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Proprietary Embeddings from Google DeepMind, released 2024.

Data completeness 81% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗

“Gecko.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/gecko.html