Introducing deepset-mxbai-embed-large-v1, a new open-source German/English embedding model, developed through collaboration between deepset and Mixedbread. This model sets a new performance standard among open source peers, supporting binary quantization and Matryoshka representation learning for significant cost reductions. Outperforming domain-specific alternatives in real-world applications, it offers 97%+ infrastructure cost savings through binary MRL.