Nemotron-3-Embed 1B/8B

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16

Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16 is a versatile text embedding model trained by NVIDIA and optimized for retrieval and semantic similarity tasks. It provides strong multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval capabilities and is designed to serve as a foundational component in text-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. This model was evaluated across 34 languages: English, Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hinglish, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Marathi, Nepalese, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.

The model generates dense vector embeddings from multilingual text inputs, enabling retrieval, semantic search, and (agentic) RAG workflows. As a core component of text retrieval systems, an embedding model transforms text, such as questions or passages, into dense vector representations. These models are typically transformer encoders that process input tokens and produce embeddings suitable for efficient similarity matching.

Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16 achieves state-of-the-art performance on the multilingual RTEB leaderboard as of July XX, 2026.

This model is ready for commercial use.