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Machine learning engineers and developers seeking a solution offering embedding models for multilingual text, multimodal content, and code applications
About Nomic Embed
Nomic Embed is a suite of open source, high-performance embedding models designed for various applications, including multilingual text, multimodal content, and code. The ecosystem includes models like Nomic Embed Text v2, which utilizes a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture to support over 100 languages with efficient inference using 305M active parameters. Nomic Embed Text v1.5 offers variable embedding dimensions (64 to 768) through Matryoshka Representation Learning, enabling developers to balance performance and storage needs. For multimodal applications, Nomic Embed Vision v1.5 aligns with the text models to provide a unified latent space for text and image data, facilitating seamless multimodal search. Additionally, Nomic Embed Code delivers state-of-the-art performance on code embedding tasks across multiple programming languages.
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