[GH-ISSUE #8433] ModernBERT (embeddings) #31181

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opened 2026-04-22 11:24:39 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 1 comment
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Originally created by @positiveblue on GitHub (Jan 15, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8433

One of the most downloaded models in Ollama is nomic-embed-text, an embedding model. It has more than 10M downloads. However, it's a 10 month old model and newer version (from nomic and other teams) are already better in almost all the metrics.

Last month AnswerAI released ModernBERT and already has >4M downloads in HF. The nomic team has a version based on it too.

I think the community would benefit quite al lot from a newer embedding version in Ollama. Not sure if we can upload it ourselves or we need to ask the team for it.

Originally created by @positiveblue on GitHub (Jan 15, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8433 One of the most downloaded models in Ollama is [nomic-embed-text](https://ollama.com/library/nomic-embed-text), an embedding model. It has more than 10M downloads. However, it's a 10 month old model and newer version (from nomic and other teams) are already better in almost all the metrics. Last month [AnswerAI released ModernBERT](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/modernbert) and already has >4M downloads in HF. The nomic team [has a version based on it](https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/modernbert-embed-base) too. I think the community would benefit quite al lot from a newer embedding version in Ollama. Not sure if we can upload it ourselves or we need to ask the team for it.
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@gsoul commented on GitHub (May 29, 2025):

+1 for this

<!-- gh-comment-id:2919265608 --> @gsoul commented on GitHub (May 29, 2025): +1 for this
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