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harrier-oss-v1-0.6b

0.6B member of Microsoft's MIT-licensed Harrier OSS embedding family, sized for consumer GPUs and CPUs.

Microsoft
Open weights
Released Mar 2026

Where it ranks

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Embeddings & retrieval
Models · Local · 69% on MTEB(Multilingual, v2)

Facts

Vendor: Microsoft
Family: Harrier OSS (small)
Released: Mar 2026
Weights: Open: download and run it yourself
License: MIT
Parameters: 0.6B
GPU memory to run locally: ~2 GB (Board lists ~1.1 GB memory use for the 0.6B weights; a 270M size (harrier-oss-v1-270m) also exists.)
Access: Free (open weights)
Last verified: 19 Oct 2026

Benchmark results

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
MTEB(Multilingual, v2)	69%	`microsoft/harrier-oss-v1-0.6b` Mean (Task) over all 131 tasks; board rank 10 (Borda); board zero-shot 78%; read from the leaderboard's public API.	19 Oct 2026	mteb-leaderboard-backend.hf.space

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