Jina AI has announced the release of Jina-ColBERT-v2, a multilingual late interaction retriever designed to enhance retrieval capabilities across 89 major languages. The new model boasts a 6.5% improvement in retrieval performance compared to the original ColBERT-v2 from Stanford NLP and a 5.4% improvement over Jina's previous version, jina-colbert-v1-en. Jina-ColBERT-v2 offers user-controlled output dimensions and supports a token length of 8192, making it a versatile tool for embedding and reranking tasks.