NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3 Embed: An Open Embedding Collection Whose 8B Checkpoint Ranks #1 on RTEB
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NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Embed on July 15 and 16, 2026. The collection has three open checkpoints: Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16, Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16, and Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-NVFP4. The 8B ranks #1 on RTEB at 78. 46 average NDCG@10.
The 1B came from ModelOpt NAS pruning plus COS+MSE distillation from the 8B teacher. NVFP4 retains 99%+ of BF16 retrieval accuracy at up to 2x Blackwell throughput. All three run 32,768-token inputs under OpenMDW-1. 1.
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