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Previous Cohere rerank snapshot. Rechecked: live docs lead with rerank-v4.0. Not a $2/1k 2026 census.

4000DR: 88AS: 86

2024 BAAI multilingual embedding snapshot. Rechecked: MIT card still listed. Not a 2026 MIRACL or MTEB crown.

1000DR: 85AS: 80

Previous Qwen3-VL rerank snapshot. Rechecked: still listed on Hugging Face. Drop leftover cutting-edge multimodal rerank crown.

150DR: 91AS: 85