GTE-Large

Alibaba · 2023 · Embeddings · China

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Alibaba
C · CEO & Politics: Eddie Wu — Not publicly documented (PRC-based; operates under Chinese regulatory environment)
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: China
K · Key Staffers: Jingren Zhou (CTO, Tongyi Lab)
L · Languages: Chinese-primary
M · Model Type: Embeddings
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, MIT)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Alibaba DAMO Academy's GTE-large (General Text Embeddings), a BERT-based English text embedding model producing 1,024-dimensional vectors for inputs of up to 512 tokens, trained with multi-stage contrastive learning on a large corpus of relevance text pairs for retrieval, semantic textual similarity and reranking; it averaged 63.13 across 56 MTEB datasets in DAMO's comparison, ahead of e5-large-v2 and OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-002. MIT license.
S · Stock / Status: $110 (BABA, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @AlibabaGroup
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Embeddings from Alibaba, released 2023.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“GTE-Large.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/gte-large.html