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Nomic Embed

Nomic Embed is a model family from Nomic AI17, with 2 assessed releases in this catalog. Licenses and availability are recorded for each release, not for the family; its releases use the Apache License 2.0.

Nomic Embed is Nomic's series of open embedding models. It began with nomic-embed-text-v1 (February 2024), a text embedder with an 8,192-token context, and continued with v1.5 and its resizable Matryoshka embeddings (February 2024), vision models aligned to the v1.5 space (June 2024), the multilingual mixture-of-experts nomic-embed-text-v2-moe (February 2025), Nomic Embed Code (March 2025), and Nomic Embed Multimodal (April 2025).12637845

On AI on Hugging Face: nomic-ai/nomic-embed-code, nomic-ai/nomic-xlm-2048, nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe-unsupervised

Last reviewedEntry updated Documented release Feb 1, 2024

Releases assessed

Each release is assessed on its own. This family has no family-wide openness label.
Releases in the Nomic Embed family
ReleaseWeightsTier (USASI rubric v0.2)LicenseReleased
nomic-embed-text-v1.5Weights: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weightApache-2.0, Apache-2.0Feb 14, 2024
nomic-embed-text-v2-moeWeights: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weightApache-2.0, Apache-2.0Feb 2025

What it is useful for

Producing embeddings for semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, clustering, and classification; the models use task prefixes such as search_query and search_document. Later releases add multilingual text, code retrieval, and images, PDFs, and charts.6745

Organization context

Provenance and derivatives

The v1 text models start from nomic-bert-2048, a long-context BERT model Nomic trained; v2 starts from nomic-xlm-2048, Nomic's rotary-embedding variant of XLM-RoBERTa Base. Nomic Embed Code is built on Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct and Nomic Embed Multimodal on Qwen2.5-VL, both from Alibaba Cloud's Qwen family.16791011514

U.S. eligibility

Project eligibility rests on documented governing or maintaining entities, not on contributors.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

The Nomic Embed models are developed and published by Nomic, Inc., which states that its headquarters is in New York City. Eligibility of each release is assessed on the release record.12131

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

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    Introducing Nomic Embed: A Truly Open Embedding Model (external site: nomic.ai)

    Nomic · Announcement · published Feb 1, 2024 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    Nomic Embed Code: A State-of-the-Art Code Retriever (external site: nomic.ai)

    Nomic · Announcement · published Mar 27, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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@misc{usasi_nomic_embed,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Nomic Embed},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/open/nomic-embed/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-09-29}
}

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