Hey everyone! Thank you so much for watching the 110th episode of the Weaviate Podcast! Today we are diving into Snowflake’s Arctic Embedding model series and their newly released Arctic Embed 2.0 open-source model, additionally supporting multilingual text embeddings. The podcast covers the origin of Arctic Embed, Pre-training embedding models, Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL), Fine-tuning embedding models, Synthetic Query Generation, Hard Negative Mining, and Single-Vector Embeddings Models in the cohort of Multi-Vector ColBERT, SPLADE, and Re-rankers.