diff --git a/lmm_tools/emb/emb.py b/lmm_tools/emb/emb.py
index 25696bc5..6186ddb4 100644
--- a/lmm_tools/emb/emb.py
+++ b/lmm_tools/emb/emb.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ def embed(self, text: str) -> npt.NDArray[np.float32]:
 
 
 class SentenceTransformerEmb(Embedder):
-    def __init__(self, model_name: str = "all-MiniLM-L12-v2"):
+    def __init__(self, model_name: str = "BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5"):
         from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
 
         self.model = SentenceTransformer(model_name)