multilingual-e5-base
Released by intfloat in 2023, multilingual-e5-base is an embedding model. multilingual-e5-base is an open-weights embed model.
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Ways to use multilingual-e5-base in osFoundry
Connect with your own key (BYOK)
Open the key dialog and paste your intfloat API key. osFoundry discovers multilingual-e5-base automatically — assign it to a Maestro role (router, direct, orchestrator, or fallback) in the Pipeline tab and it is live in every chat. Your key, your provider account — no token markup.
Deploy a dedicated endpoint
multilingual-e5-base is open-weights — run it locally for free, or deploy a dedicated GPU endpoint in your workspace for reserved capacity with no rate limits.
Use it in a Room App
Room Apps declare AI features in their manifest, then call them with invokeAI:
import { invokeAI } from '@osfoundry/app-sdk'
// 'summarize' is an AI feature declared in your app manifest.
const result = await invokeAI('summarize', userText)
Call it from your own apps
Once a model is wired into your workspace you can host it as an API and reach it from your own services, scripts, or CI — outside osFoundry.
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Licence
Unspecified — Licence terms not specified — verify the upstream model card before commercial use.
Check upstream documentation.
Frequently asked about multilingual-e5-base
Is multilingual-e5-base free to use?
multilingual-e5-base is free to run locally on your own hardware. Hosted access through osFoundry is metered (input Free (local), output Free (local)). You can switch between local and hosted at any time.
Can I use multilingual-e5-base commercially?
Commercial use is allowed with conditions. Licence terms not specified — verify the upstream model card before commercial use. Check upstream documentation.
Can I run multilingual-e5-base locally?
Yes. multilingual-e5-base is open-weights and runs locally on a workstation GPU. osFoundry's local runtime handles model loading, quantisation, and routing.
What is multilingual-e5-base best at?
multilingual-e5-base is well-suited to sentence similarity.
How do I use multilingual-e5-base in osFoundry?
Paste your intfloat API key in the key dialog (or deploy the open weights for self-hostable models), assign multilingual-e5-base to a Maestro role in the Pipeline tab, then use it in chat, Room Apps via invokeAI, or your own apps.
Published by intfloat on May 19, 2023. Source: https://huggingface.co/intfloat/multilingual-e5-base