Harrier OSS v1 270M

Released
2026-03-30
Last refreshed
2026-05-03
Status
Researched 179d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permitted

Harrier OSS v1 270M is a released general LLM work model with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

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Specifications
Family
Harrier
Released
2026-03-30
Context
32K
Parameters
270M
Specialization
embedding
Openness
Open source
License
MITOSI-approvedPermitted
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
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About

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.

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Benchmark scores(1)

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BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
66.55MTEB(Multilingual, v2)Observed 2026-10-17
Harness: mteb 2.26.6 leaderboard aggregation, Mean (Task) over 131 tasks
Evaluator: MTEB (embeddings-benchmark/results)
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: MTEB(Multilingual, v2) Mean (Task) 66.55 over 131 tasks; Mean (TaskType) 56.90. Computed with the leaderboard's own code (mteb 2.26.6 Benchmark summary table) from embeddings-benchmark/results @ 4bb41dd (2026-10-17). Source: MTEB (embeddings-benchmark/results, CC0). Retrieved 2026-10-17. Microsoft's harrier-oss-v1 card reports 66.5 (1 dp), consistent with this value.

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