According to Sundar Pichai, EmbeddingGemma is Google's latest open AI model optimized for on-device use, achieving the highest performance among models under 500 million parameters on the MTEB benchmark. The model delivers state-of-the-art embeddings for search and retrieval tasks, matching the capabilities of models nearly twice its size. This advancement opens significant business opportunities for enterprises seeking efficient, private, and scalable AI-powered semantic search and information retrieval solutions without relying on cloud infrastructure (source: Sundar Pichai, Twitter, 2025-09-04).