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

AchievementModelJul 16, 2026

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed is a collection of open embedding models for retrieval tasks. Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16 ranks #1 on the RTEB leaderboard, scoring 78.5%. The collection includes 1B variants for efficient deployment and features a 32k context window, multilingual support, and NVFP4 quantization for Blackwell GPUs. NVIDIA reports the 8B model achieves the lowest estimated downstream agentic token cost across multiple benchmarks.

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