Cohere's embed-v4.0 is my daily driver as far as a high performance model is concerned. I do a lot of cluster analysis and data visualization and I like that there's an `input_type="clustering"` mode in addition to the standard `input_type="search"` mode.

For a fast, open, and local model, I've found it hard to beat https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v...