The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, also called the Zhiyuan Institute, is a non-profit AI research laboratory founded in 2018. It is known for the WuDao multimodal models and the BGE (BAAI General Embedding) series of text embedding and reranker models.
- Founded
- 2018
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founder
- Zhang Hongjiang
- AI lab
Model family

Bge
The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, also called the Zhiyuan Institute, is a non-profit AI research laboratory founded in 2018. It is known for the WuDao multimodal models and the BGE (BAAI General Embedding) series of text embedding and reranker models.
Latest Bge models
Models in this family
3 catalogued models
3 models · 1–3
| Select models to compare | Model | Released | Context | Input /M | Output /M | Parameters | Type | I/O | Openness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 25, 2024 | 8K | — | — | 9.2B | Text | text → text | Open weights | ||
| March 15, 2024 | 8K | — | — | 568M | Text | text → text | Open weights | ||
| January 30, 2024 | 8K | $0.01 | $0.00 | 567M | Embeddings | text → embeddings | Open weights |