In 2025, we benchmarked the performance of text embedding models in similarity-based recommendations. Within six months of that benchmark's publication, Alibaba Cloud and Google launched a new generation of open-source text embedding models: qwen3-embedding by Alibaba Cloud and embeddinggemma by Google. Recently, the gorse-bench tool also added benchmark features for text embedding models. In this post, we use gorse-bench and the playground dataset to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of popular open-source text embedding models.