Google Unveils EmbeddingGemma 2 With Multimodal Search and On-Device AI Support; Nano Banana 2.1 Announced

Gadgets360 - Oct 7, 2026

Google has announced EmbeddingGemma 2 as its latest open, lightweight multimodal embedding model. It is designed for on-device multimodal embeddings, natively mapping combinations of text, images, audio, and video into a unified embedding space. The EmbeddingGemma 2 weights are available through Hugging Face and Kaggle. It is built on the Gemma 4 architecture, and th...

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