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Description
Snowflake's Arctic Embed 2.0 brings enhanced multilingual functionality to its text embedding models, allowing for efficient global-scale data retrieval while maintaining strong performance in English and scalability. This version builds on the solid groundwork of earlier iterations, offering support for various languages and enabling developers to implement stream-processing pipelines that utilize neural networks and tackle intricate tasks, including tracking, video encoding/decoding, and rendering, thus promoting real-time data analytics across multiple formats. The model employs Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) to optimize embedding storage, achieving substantial compression with minimal loss of quality. As a result, organizations can effectively manage intensive workloads such as training expansive models, fine-tuning, real-time inference, and executing high-performance computing operations across different languages and geographical areas. Furthermore, this innovation opens new opportunities for businesses looking to harness the power of multilingual data analytics in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Description
On June 23, 2025, Microsoft unveiled Mu, an innovative 330-million-parameter encoder–decoder language model specifically crafted to enhance the agent experience within Windows environments by effectively translating natural language inquiries into function calls for Settings, all processed on-device via NPUs at a remarkable speed of over 100 tokens per second while ensuring impressive accuracy. By leveraging Phi Silica optimizations, Mu’s encoder–decoder design employs a fixed-length latent representation that significantly reduces both computational demands and memory usage, achieving a 47 percent reduction in first-token latency and a decoding speed that is 4.7 times greater on Qualcomm Hexagon NPUs when compared to other decoder-only models. Additionally, the model benefits from hardware-aware tuning techniques, which include a thoughtful 2/3–1/3 split of encoder and decoder parameters, shared weights for input and output embeddings, Dual LayerNorm, rotary positional embeddings, and grouped-query attention, allowing for swift inference rates exceeding 200 tokens per second on devices such as the Surface Laptop 7, along with sub-500 ms response times for settings-related queries. This combination of features positions Mu as a groundbreaking advancement in on-device language processing capabilities.
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Integrations
OpenAI
Snowflake
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$2 per credit
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Deployment
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Windows
Mac
Linux
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Deployment
Web-Based
On-Premises
iPhone App
iPad App
Android App
Windows
Mac
Linux
Chromebook
Customer Support
Business Hours
Live Rep (24/7)
Online Support
Customer Support
Business Hours
Live Rep (24/7)
Online Support
Types of Training
Training Docs
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Live Training (Online)
In Person
Types of Training
Training Docs
Webinars
Live Training (Online)
In Person
Vendor Details
Company Name
Snowflake
Founded
2012
Country
United States
Website
www.snowflake.com/en/engineering-blog/snowflake-arctic-embed-2-multilingual/
Vendor Details
Company Name
Microsoft
Founded
1975
Country
United States
Website
blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/06/23/introducing-mu-language-model-and-how-it-enabled-the-agent-in-windows-settings/