hmm. Cohere-Rerank is very popular (but it's a paid API for reranking, that we support)
I know JinaAI is about to launch their V2 embeddings (but they aren't out yet)
The rest is just stuff from this leaderboard --
https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard -- I would maybe give bge-large-en-v1.5 a try again, but set your chunk size to 512