NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3 Embed: An Open Embedding Collection Whose 8B Checkpoint Ranks #1 on RTEB
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.…
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