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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Embed, Open Embedding Models with Top RTEB Leaderboard Performance

Model release Provisional 95% confidence first seen 16 July 2026, 16:01

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Embed, a collection of open embedding models designed for retrieval-augmented generation and agentic systems. The 8B variant achieved the top ranking on the RTEB leaderboard with 78.46 NDCG@10 score, while the 1B variants deliver improved efficiency with 27-28% error rate reduction and up to 2x higher throughput on Blackwell hardware.

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16 Jul, 16:01 NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval Hugging Face Blog official 17 Jul, 07:53 NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3 Embed: An Open Embedding Collection Whose 8B Checkpoint Ranks #1 on RTEB MarkTechPost

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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Embed, Open Embedding Models with Top RTEB Leaderboard Performance

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