Who is Instructor Large for?

Instructor Large is an open-source project built for developers.

Is Instructor Large free?

Yes — Instructor Large is open source under the Open Source license and free to use.

What platforms does Instructor Large run on?

Instructor Large runs on the web, API, and the command line.

Is Instructor Large still active?

Unverified. Instructor Large has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.

What projects are similar to Instructor Large?

Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Ouro 1.4B, Bge Reranker V2 M3 Ko, and Qwen 72B.

Who makes Instructor Large?

Instructor Large is developed by HKUNLP.

When did Instructor Large launch?

Instructor Large first shipped in 2022.

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Instructor Large

Name: Instructor Large
Author: HKUNLP

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hkunlp/instructor-large is part of the INSTRUCTOR family of embedding models. It generates embeddings that follow natural language instructions, improving performance on diverse tasks. It is designed for use with sentence-transformers and supports a wide range of embedding-based applications.

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Overview

3 features

In the Foundation models & chat space, Instructor Large takes a focused approach. It focuses on creating high-quality embeddings from text instructions for retrieval, clustering, and semantic search applications. Instructor Large is an open-source project aimed at developers. The project is open source (Open Source). It ships for the web, API, and the command line.

Behind Instructor Large is HKUNLP, and it first shipped in 2022. Key capabilities include Text Embeddings, Sentence Similarity, and Instruction Tuning.

Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.

Text Embeddings
Sentence Similarity
Instruction Tuning

Built with & integrations

Hosting

AWS

Runs on

BrowserAPI-onlyCLI

Detected from

AWS: x-amz-cf-id header · x-amz-cf-pop header · via header

Trust & compliance

License

Open Source

Verified signals

HTTPSOpen SourceFree tier

Indexing history

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hkunlp/instructor-large verified against its public source
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Frequently asked questions about Instructor Large

What does Instructor Large do?: Instructor Large focuses on creating high-quality embeddings from text instructions for retrieval, clustering, and semantic search applications. It is catalogued under Foundation models & chat on PulseGate.
Who is Instructor Large for?: Instructor Large is an open-source project built for developers.
Is Instructor Large free?: Yes — Instructor Large is open source under the Open Source license and free to use.
What platforms does Instructor Large run on?: Instructor Large runs on the web, API, and the command line.
Is Instructor Large still active?: Unverified. Instructor Large has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
What projects are similar to Instructor Large?: Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Ouro 1.4B, Bge Reranker V2 M3 Ko, and Qwen 72B.Ouro 1.4B Bge Reranker V2 M3 Ko Qwen 72B
Who makes Instructor Large?: Instructor Large is developed by HKUNLP.
When did Instructor Large launch?: Instructor Large first shipped in 2022.

At a glance

Pricing: Open Source
Platforms: Web
Languages: English
License: Open Source
Built for: developers
Model: Open source
Solves: Creating high-quality embeddings from text instructions for retrieval, clustering, and semantic search applications.

Registered as

Hugging Face: hkunlp/instructor-large

Developer

HKUNLP

Live coverage

Identity confidence: Medium · 70.4
Indexed: 21 Jul 2026
Lifecycle: Alive
Last seen: 21 Jul 2026

Identity audit (13)

Slug: hkunlp-instructor-large-huggingface-co
Lifecycle state recorded: 21 Jul 2026
Verification state: Indexed for public listing
Listing state: Listed: yes
Index status: Included in index
Latest evidence snapshot: 21 Jul 2026
Timeline basis: Indexed-at chronology. This listing's first-seen date was written by the catalog backfill, not observed here, so it is not treated as a sighting.
Name from: Derived from the project's own page and URL.
Category from: Derived from the model's own Hugging Face metadata.
Summary from: Written by a language model from public pages.
Languages from: Detected by a language model from page content.
Last updated: 6 Aug 2026
Canonical URL: https://huggingface.co/hkunlp/instructor-large

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