If you're interested in embedding models for retrieval (search), clustering, classification, paraphrase mining, etc., then there's now 10,000 fully free and open source options on @hf.co via Sentence Transformers.
Check out the most popular ones here: https://huggingface.co/models?library=sentence-transformers
Check out the most popular ones here: https://huggingface.co/models?library=sentence-transformers
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And if you're unsure about which are the best overall, consider looking at the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) Leaderboard: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard