diff --git a/docs/src/examples/modal_langchain.py b/docs/src/examples/modal_langchain.py
index 3e2416fe..20c9960a 100644
--- a/docs/src/examples/modal_langchain.py
+++ b/docs/src/examples/modal_langchain.py
@@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ def qanda_langchain(query):
     download_docs()
     docs = store_docs()
 
-    text_splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=200,)
+    text_splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(
+        chunk_size=1000,
+        chunk_overlap=200,
+    )
     documents = text_splitter.split_documents(docs)
     embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()
 
diff --git a/docs/test/md_testing.py b/docs/test/md_testing.py
index b1a629e8..2a4012c5 100644
--- a/docs/test/md_testing.py
+++ b/docs/test/md_testing.py
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ def yield_lines(lines: Iterator[str], prefix: str, suffix: str):
             if not skip_test:
                 yield line[strip_length:]
 
+
 for file in filter(lambda file: file not in excluded_files, files):
     with open(file, "r") as f:
         lines = list(yield_lines(iter(f), "```", "```"))
diff --git a/python/lancedb/embeddings/gte.py b/python/lancedb/embeddings/gte.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bdff1ffc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/lancedb/embeddings/gte.py
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+#  Copyright (c) 2023. LanceDB Developers
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+from typing import List, Union
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from .base import TextEmbeddingFunction
+from .registry import register
+from .utils import weak_lru
+
+
+@register("gte-text")
+class GteEmbeddings(TextEmbeddingFunction):
+    """
+    An embedding function that uses GTE-LARGE MLX format(for Apple silicon devices only)
+    as well as the standard cpu/gpu version from: https://huggingface.co/thenlper/gte-large.
+
+    For Apple users, you will need the mlx package insalled, which can be done with:
+        pip install mlx
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    name: str, default "thenlper/gte-large"
+        The name of the model to use.
+    device: str, default "cpu"
+        Sets the device type for the model.
+    normalize: str, default "True"
+        Controls normalize param in encode function for the transformer.
+    mlx: bool, default False
+        Controls which model to use. False for gte-large,True for the mlx version.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    import lancedb
+    import lancedb.embeddings.gte
+    from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
+    from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
+    import pandas as pd
+
+    model = get_registry().get("gte-text").create() # mlx=True for Apple silicon
+    class TextModel(LanceModel):
+        text: str = model.SourceField()
+        vector: Vector(model.ndims()) = model.VectorField()
+
+    df = pd.DataFrame({"text": ["hi hello sayonara", "goodbye world"]})
+    db = lancedb.connect("~/.lancedb")
+    tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=TextModel, mode="overwrite")
+
+    tbl.add(df)
+    rs = tbl.search("hello").limit(1).to_pandas()
+
+    """
+
+    name: str = "thenlper/gte-large"
+    device: str = "cpu"
+    normalize: bool = True
+    mlx: bool = False
+
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        self._ndims = None
+        if kwargs:
+            self.mlx = kwargs.get("mlx", False)
+            if self.mlx is True:
+                self.name == "gte-mlx"
+
+    @property
+    def embedding_model(self):
+        """
+        Get the embedding model specified by the flag,
+        name and device. This is cached so that the model is only loaded
+        once per process.
+        """
+        return self.get_embedding_model()
+
+    def ndims(self):
+        if self.mlx is True:
+            self._ndims = self.embedding_model.dims
+        if self._ndims is None:
+            self._ndims = len(self.generate_embeddings("foo")[0])
+        return self._ndims
+
+    def generate_embeddings(
+        self, texts: Union[List[str], np.ndarray]
+    ) -> List[np.array]:
+        """
+        Get the embeddings for the given texts.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        texts: list[str] or np.ndarray (of str)
+            The texts to embed
+        """
+        if self.mlx is True:
+            return self.embedding_model.run(list(texts)).tolist()
+
+        return self.embedding_model.encode(
+            list(texts),
+            convert_to_numpy=True,
+            normalize_embeddings=self.normalize,
+        ).tolist()
+
+    @weak_lru(maxsize=1)
+    def get_embedding_model(self):
+        """
+        Get the embedding model specified by the flag,
+        name and device. This is cached so that the model is only loaded
+        once per process.
+        """
+        if self.mlx is True:
+            from .gte_mlx_model import Model
+
+            return Model()
+        else:
+            sentence_transformers = self.safe_import(
+                "sentence_transformers", "sentence-transformers"
+            )
+            return sentence_transformers.SentenceTransformer(
+                self.name, device=self.device
+            )
diff --git a/python/lancedb/embeddings/gte_mlx_model.py b/python/lancedb/embeddings/gte_mlx_model.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..89c509f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/lancedb/embeddings/gte_mlx_model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+import json
+from typing import List, Optional
+
+import numpy as np
+from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+from transformers import BertTokenizer
+
+try:
+    import mlx.core as mx
+    import mlx.nn as nn
+except ImportError:
+    raise ImportError("You need to install MLX to use this model use - pip install mlx")
+
+
+def average_pool(last_hidden_state: mx.array, attention_mask: mx.array) -> mx.array:
+    last_hidden = mx.multiply(last_hidden_state, attention_mask[..., None])
+    return last_hidden.sum(axis=1) / attention_mask.sum(axis=1)[..., None]
+
+
+class ModelConfig(BaseModel):
+    dim: int = 1024
+    num_attention_heads: int = 16
+    num_hidden_layers: int = 24
+    vocab_size: int = 30522
+    attention_probs_dropout_prob: float = 0.1
+    hidden_dropout_prob: float = 0.1
+    layer_norm_eps: float = 1e-12
+    max_position_embeddings: int = 512
+
+
+class TransformerEncoderLayer(nn.Module):
+    """
+    A transformer encoder layer with (the original BERT) post-normalization.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        dims: int,
+        num_heads: int,
+        mlp_dims: Optional[int] = None,
+        layer_norm_eps: float = 1e-12,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        mlp_dims = mlp_dims or dims * 4
+        self.attention = nn.MultiHeadAttention(dims, num_heads, bias=True)
+        self.ln1 = nn.LayerNorm(dims, eps=layer_norm_eps)
+        self.ln2 = nn.LayerNorm(dims, eps=layer_norm_eps)
+        self.linear1 = nn.Linear(dims, mlp_dims)
+        self.linear2 = nn.Linear(mlp_dims, dims)
+        self.gelu = nn.GELU()
+
+    def __call__(self, x, mask):
+        attention_out = self.attention(x, x, x, mask)
+        add_and_norm = self.ln1(x + attention_out)
+
+        ff = self.linear1(add_and_norm)
+        ff_gelu = self.gelu(ff)
+        ff_out = self.linear2(ff_gelu)
+        x = self.ln2(ff_out + add_and_norm)
+
+        return x
+
+
+class TransformerEncoder(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self, num_layers: int, dims: int, num_heads: int, mlp_dims: Optional[int] = None
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.layers = [
+            TransformerEncoderLayer(dims, num_heads, mlp_dims)
+            for i in range(num_layers)
+        ]
+
+    def __call__(self, x, mask):
+        for layer in self.layers:
+            x = layer(x, mask)
+
+        return x
+
+
+class BertEmbeddings(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, config: ModelConfig):
+        self.word_embeddings = nn.Embedding(config.vocab_size, config.dim)
+        self.token_type_embeddings = nn.Embedding(2, config.dim)
+        self.position_embeddings = nn.Embedding(
+            config.max_position_embeddings, config.dim
+        )
+        self.norm = nn.LayerNorm(config.dim, eps=config.layer_norm_eps)
+
+    def __call__(self, input_ids: mx.array, token_type_ids: mx.array) -> mx.array:
+        words = self.word_embeddings(input_ids)
+        position = self.position_embeddings(
+            mx.broadcast_to(mx.arange(input_ids.shape[1]), input_ids.shape)
+        )
+        token_types = self.token_type_embeddings(token_type_ids)
+
+        embeddings = position + words + token_types
+        return self.norm(embeddings)
+
+
+class Bert(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, config: ModelConfig):
+        self.embeddings = BertEmbeddings(config)
+        self.encoder = TransformerEncoder(
+            num_layers=config.num_hidden_layers,
+            dims=config.dim,
+            num_heads=config.num_attention_heads,
+        )
+        self.pooler = nn.Linear(config.dim, config.dim)
+
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        input_ids: mx.array,
+        token_type_ids: mx.array,
+        attention_mask: mx.array = None,
+    ) -> tuple[mx.array, mx.array]:
+        x = self.embeddings(input_ids, token_type_ids)
+
+        if attention_mask is not None:
+            # convert 0's to -infs, 1's to 0's, and make it broadcastable
+            attention_mask = mx.log(attention_mask)
+            attention_mask = mx.expand_dims(attention_mask, (1, 2))
+
+        y = self.encoder(x, attention_mask)
+        return y, mx.tanh(self.pooler(y[:, 0]))
+
+
+class Model:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        # get converted embedding model
+        model_path = snapshot_download(repo_id="vegaluisjose/mlx-rag")
+        with open(f"{model_path}/config.json") as f:
+            model_config = ModelConfig(**json.load(f))
+        self.dims = model_config.dim
+        self.model = Bert(model_config)
+        self.model.load_weights(f"{model_path}/model.npz")
+        self.tokenizer = BertTokenizer.from_pretrained("thenlper/gte-large")
+        self.embeddings = []
+
+    def run(self, input_text: List[str]) -> mx.array:
+        tokens = self.tokenizer(input_text, return_tensors="np", padding=True)
+        tokens = {key: mx.array(v) for key, v in tokens.items()}
+
+        last_hidden_state, _ = self.model(**tokens)
+
+        embeddings = average_pool(
+            last_hidden_state, tokens["attention_mask"].astype(mx.float32)
+        )
+        self.embeddings = (
+            embeddings / mx.linalg.norm(embeddings, ord=2, axis=1)[..., None]
+        )
+
+        return np.array(embeddings.astype(mx.float32))
diff --git a/python/pyproject.toml b/python/pyproject.toml
index 3a42dc5c..e43b635f 100644
--- a/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ tests = ["aiohttp", "pandas>=1.4", "pytest", "pytest-mock", "pytest-asyncio", "d
 dev = ["ruff", "pre-commit"]
 docs = ["mkdocs", "mkdocs-jupyter", "mkdocs-material", "mkdocstrings[python]"]
 clip = ["torch", "pillow", "open-clip"]
-embeddings = ["openai>=1.6.1", "sentence-transformers", "torch", "pillow", "open-clip-torch", "cohere",
-                "InstructorEmbedding", "google.generativeai", "boto3>=1.28.57", "awscli>=1.29.57", "botocore>=1.31.57" ]
+embeddings = ["openai>=1.6.1", "sentence-transformers", "torch", "pillow", "open-clip-torch", "cohere", "huggingface_hub",
+                "InstructorEmbedding", "google.generativeai", "boto3>=1.28.57", "awscli>=1.29.57", "botocore>=1.31.57"]
 
 [project.scripts]
 lancedb = "lancedb.cli.cli:cli"
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 select = ["F", "E", "W", "I", "G", "TCH", "PERF"]
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
-addopts = "--strict-markers"
+addopts = "--strict-markers --ignore-glob=lancedb/embeddings/*.py"
+
 markers = [
     "slow: marks tests as slow (deselect with '-m \"not slow\"')",
     "asyncio"
diff --git a/python/tests/test_embeddings_slow.py b/python/tests/test_embeddings_slow.py
index f280482b..e3724b03 100644
--- a/python/tests/test_embeddings_slow.py
+++ b/python/tests/test_embeddings_slow.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 #  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 #  limitations under the License.
+import importlib
 import io
 import os
 
@@ -22,6 +23,11 @@ import lancedb
 from lancedb.embeddings import get_registry
 from lancedb.pydantic import LanceModel, Vector
 
+try:
+    if importlib.util.find_spec("mlx.core") is not None:
+        _mlx = True
+except ImportError:
+    _mlx = None
 # These are integration tests for embedding functions.
 # They are slow because they require downloading models
 # or connection to external api
@@ -204,6 +210,29 @@ def test_gemini_embedding(tmp_path):
     assert tbl.search("hello").limit(1).to_pandas()["text"][0] == "hello world"
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(
+    _mlx is None,
+    reason="mlx tests only required for apple users.",
+)
+@pytest.mark.slow
+def test_gte_embedding(tmp_path):
+    import lancedb.embeddings.gte
+
+    model = get_registry().get("gte-text").create()
+
+    class TextModel(LanceModel):
+        text: str = model.SourceField()
+        vector: Vector(model.ndims()) = model.VectorField()
+
+    df = pd.DataFrame({"text": ["hello world", "goodbye world"]})
+    db = lancedb.connect(tmp_path)
+    tbl = db.create_table("test", schema=TextModel, mode="overwrite")
+
+    tbl.add(df)
+    assert len(tbl.to_pandas()["vector"][0]) == model.ndims()
+    assert tbl.search("hello").limit(1).to_pandas()["text"][0] == "hello world"
+
+
 def aws_setup():
     try:
         import boto3