E5-Base-v2

About E5-Base-v2

E5 Base is Microsoft's efficient embedding model, offering good semantic search capability with moderate resource requirements. The model generates quality embeddings suitable for most retrieval applications. E5 Base achieves competitive performance on embedding benchmarks. It's ideal for applications balancing quality and efficiency. For developers seeking practical embedding capability, E5 Base offers reliable performance.

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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with E5-Base-v2 API

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="intfloat/e5-base-v2-20251117",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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