Alternatives to text-embedding-3-large

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San Francisco lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT API. Current flagship is GPT-5.6 Sol; GPT-5.2 remains the previous frontier snapshot.

2800000DR: 148AS: 162

Previous Qwen3 embedding snapshot. Rechecked: still listed on Hugging Face. Drop leftover MTEB #1 as a 2026 census.

50000DR: 85AS: 88

Previous OpenAI embedding snapshot. Rechecked: still listed at $0.100/1M. Not the 2026 embedding default.

5234DR: 139AS: 152