Zen Embedding 0.6B

0.6B-parameter text-embedding model for retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and dense retrieval. Part of the Zen embedding line.

Repackaged from Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B (apache-2.0, Alibaba Qwen). Native HuggingFace safetensors, re-hosted under the Zen embedding line. Not trained from scratch — a permissively-licensed redistribution for the OSS-clean Zen model line.

Usage

from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

model = SentenceTransformer("zenlm/zen-embedding-0.6B")
emb = model.encode(["The weather is lovely today.", "It's so sunny outside!"])
print(model.similarity(emb, emb))

Hosted via the Hanzo gateway (api.hanzo.ai) as zen-embedding-0.6b.

GGUF build for CPU inference: zenlm/zen-embedding-0.6B-GGUF.

License

apache-2.0. Upstream: Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B by Alibaba Qwen. This repository redistributes the weights under the same license.