diff --git a/Examples/BasicExample/BasicExample/ContentView.swift b/Examples/BasicExample/BasicExample/ContentView.swift
index 7feeae5..12e51cb 100644
--- a/Examples/BasicExample/BasicExample/ContentView.swift
+++ b/Examples/BasicExample/BasicExample/ContentView.swift
@@ -16,10 +16,16 @@ struct ContentView: View {
     @State private var querySentence: String = ""
     @State private var similarityResults: [SearchResult] = []
     @State private var similarityIndex: SimilarityIndex?
+    @State private var similarityIndexComparison: SimilarityIndex?
 
     func loadIndex() async {
+        var model: any EmbeddingsProtocol = MiniLMEmbeddings()
+        #if canImport(NaturalLanguage.NLContextualEmbedding)
+        embeddingModel = NativeContextualEmbeddings(language: .english)
+        #else
+
         similarityIndex = await SimilarityIndex(
-            model: MiniLMEmbeddings(),
+            model: model,
             metric: CosineSimilarity()
         )
     }
diff --git a/Examples/ChatWithFilesExample/ChatWithFilesExample/ChatWithFilesExampleSwiftUIView.swift b/Examples/ChatWithFilesExample/ChatWithFilesExample/ChatWithFilesExampleSwiftUIView.swift
index 55f344a..b41694d 100644
--- a/Examples/ChatWithFilesExample/ChatWithFilesExample/ChatWithFilesExampleSwiftUIView.swift
+++ b/Examples/ChatWithFilesExample/ChatWithFilesExample/ChatWithFilesExampleSwiftUIView.swift
@@ -272,7 +272,11 @@ struct ChatWithFilesExampleSwiftUIView: View {
             embeddingModel = MultiQAMiniLMEmbeddings()
             currentTokenizer = BertTokenizer()
         case .native:
+            #if canImport(NaturalLanguage.NLContextualEmbedding)
+            embeddingModel = NativeContextualEmbeddings()
+            #else
             embeddingModel = NativeEmbeddings()
+            #endif
             currentTokenizer = NativeTokenizer()
         }
 
diff --git a/Sources/SimilaritySearchKit/Core/Embeddings/Models/NativeContextualEmbeddings.swift b/Sources/SimilaritySearchKit/Core/Embeddings/Models/NativeContextualEmbeddings.swift
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e6cdab8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Sources/SimilaritySearchKit/Core/Embeddings/Models/NativeContextualEmbeddings.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+//
+//  NativeContextualEmbeddings.swift
+//  
+//
+//  Created by Zach Nagengast on 10/11/23.
+//
+
+import Foundation
+import NaturalLanguage
+import CoreML
+
+#if canImport(NaturalLanguage.NLContextualEmbedding)
+@available(macOS 14.0, iOS 17.0, *)
+public class NativeContextualEmbeddings: EmbeddingsProtocol {
+    public let model: ModelActor
+    public let tokenizer: any TokenizerProtocol
+
+    // Initialize with a language
+    public init(language: NLLanguage = .english) {
+        self.tokenizer = NativeTokenizer()
+        guard let nativeModel = NLContextualEmbedding(language: language) else {
+            fatalError("Failed to load the Core ML model.")
+        }
+        Self.initializeModel(nativeModel)
+        self.model = ModelActor(model: nativeModel)
+    }
+
+    // Initialize with a script
+    public init(script: NLScript) {
+        self.tokenizer = NativeTokenizer()
+        guard let nativeModel = NLContextualEmbedding(script: script) else {
+            fatalError("Failed to load the Core ML model.")
+        }
+        Self.initializeModel(nativeModel)
+        self.model = ModelActor(model: nativeModel)
+    }
+
+    // Common model initialization logic
+    private static func initializeModel(_ nativeModel: NLContextualEmbedding) {
+        if !nativeModel.hasAvailableAssets {
+            nativeModel.requestAssets { _, _ in }
+        }
+        try! nativeModel.load()
+    }
+
+    // MARK: - Dense Embeddings
+
+    public actor ModelActor {
+        private let model: NLContextualEmbedding
+
+        init(model: NLContextualEmbedding) {
+            self.model = model
+        }
+
+        func vector(for sentence: String) -> [Float]? {
+            // Obtain embedding result for the given sentence
+            // Shape is [1, embedding.sequenceLength, model.dimension]
+            let embedding = try! model.embeddingResult(for: sentence, language: nil)
+
+            // Initialize an array to store the total embedding values and set the count
+            var meanPooledEmbeddings: [Float] = Array(repeating: 0.0, count: model.dimension)
+            let sequenceLength = embedding.sequenceLength
+
+            // Mean pooling: Loop through each token vector in the embedding and sum the values
+            embedding.enumerateTokenVectors(in: sentence.startIndex ..< sentence.endIndex) { (embedding, _) -> Bool in
+                for tokenEmbeddingIndex in 0 ..< embedding.count {
+                    meanPooledEmbeddings[tokenEmbeddingIndex] += Float(embedding[tokenEmbeddingIndex])
+                }
+                return true
+            }
+
+            // Mean pooling: Get the average embedding from totals
+            if sequenceLength > 0 {
+                for index in 0 ..< sequenceLength {
+                    meanPooledEmbeddings[index] /= Float(sequenceLength)
+                }
+            }
+
+            // Return the mean-pooled vector
+            return meanPooledEmbeddings
+        }
+    }
+
+    public func encode(sentence: String) async -> [Float]? {
+        return await model.vector(for: sentence)
+    }
+}
+#endif
+
diff --git a/Sources/SimilaritySearchKit/Core/Embeddings/Models/NativeEmbeddings.swift b/Sources/SimilaritySearchKit/Core/Embeddings/Models/NativeEmbeddings.swift
index 94a4f1e..7b8ce65 100644
--- a/Sources/SimilaritySearchKit/Core/Embeddings/Models/NativeEmbeddings.swift
+++ b/Sources/SimilaritySearchKit/Core/Embeddings/Models/NativeEmbeddings.swift
@@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ import NaturalLanguage
 
 @available(macOS 11.0, iOS 15.0, *)
 public class NativeEmbeddings: EmbeddingsProtocol {
-    public let model = ModelActor()
+    public let model: ModelActor
     public let tokenizer: any TokenizerProtocol
 
-    public init() {
+    public init(language: NLLanguage = .english) {
         self.tokenizer = NativeTokenizer()
+        self.model = ModelActor(language: language)
     }
 
     // MARK: - Dense Embeddings
@@ -22,8 +23,8 @@ public class NativeEmbeddings: EmbeddingsProtocol {
     public actor ModelActor {
         private let model: NLEmbedding
 
-        init() {
-            guard let nativeModel = NLEmbedding.sentenceEmbedding(for: .english) else {
+        init(language: NLLanguage) {
+            guard let nativeModel = NLEmbedding.sentenceEmbedding(for: language) else {
                 fatalError("Failed to load the Core ML model.")
             }
             model = nativeModel
diff --git a/Tests/SimilaritySearchKitTests/SimilaritySearchKitTests.swift b/Tests/SimilaritySearchKitTests/SimilaritySearchKitTests.swift
index 220c31a..c908040 100644
--- a/Tests/SimilaritySearchKitTests/SimilaritySearchKitTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/SimilaritySearchKitTests/SimilaritySearchKitTests.swift
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ import CoreML
 
 @available(macOS 13.0, iOS 16.0, *)
 class SimilaritySearchKitTests: XCTestCase {
+
+    override func setUp() {
+        executionTimeAllowance = 60
+        continueAfterFailure = true
+    }
+
     func testSavingJsonIndex() async {
         let similarityIndex = await SimilarityIndex(model: DistilbertEmbeddings(), vectorStore: JsonStore())