NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval

Hugging Face · 16 July 2026, 16:01 ● Covered by 2 sources

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Embed, a collection of three embedding models for retrieval in agentic workflows, with the 8B variant ranking first on the RTEB leaderboard at 78.5% accuracy. The 1B variants achieve 72.4% on RTEB while reducing error rates by 27-28% compared to predecessors, with an NVFP4-optimized version delivering up to 2x higher throughput on Blackwell hardware. Better retrieval quality reduces downstream token costs for agent queries, enabling more efficient multi-step agentic reasoning across enterprises already evaluating the models.