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Harrier OSS v1 270M

harrier-oss-v1-270m

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Lightweight variant of Microsoft's Harrier open-source multilingual embedding family, released March 30, 2026. Decoder-only architecture based on Gemma 3. Produces 640-dimensional embeddings. MTEB-v2 score: 66.5. Supports 94+ languages. Trained with contrastive learning and knowledge distillation. MIT license. Best choice for latency-sensitive deployments.

Harrier OSS v1 270M has a 32K-token context window.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningFunction CallingTool UseStructured OutputsCode ExecutionPrompt CachingBatch APIAudioFine-tuning

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Specifications

FamilyHarrier
Released2026-03-30
Parameters270M
Context33K
Specializationembedding
LicenseMIT

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