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Qwen3 Embedding 8B

Qwen3 Embedding 8B is Alibaba's 8B-tier text embedding model in the Qwen3 Embedding line, producing 4096-dimensional vectors and ranking first on the MTEB multilingual leaderboard at release, built for demanding cross-lingual retrieval and RAG workloads.

index.ts
import { embed } from 'ai';
const result = await embed({
model: 'alibaba/qwen3-embedding-8b',
value: 'Sunny day at the beach',
})

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