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Nomic
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Nomic is the company blog at nomic.ai, writing about ai and data. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nomic's blog for its embedding and model release posts, such as Nomic Embed v1, Matryoshka embeddings in Nomic Embed 1.5, and Nomic Embed Text V2. Comments cite these as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Accelerating the design and construction of the built world. Nomic is the AI agent platform for AEC firms, grounded in your drawings, specs, and project data.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/posts/nomic-embed-text-v13 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-03
- /gpt4all2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-16
What Hacker News says?
I get what you're saying, I was watching this the other day: Titanic (1997) - Iceberg,Right ahead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYOn3-PhA9c It's all so incredibly manual, from the guys who literally stand at the front of the ship just looking out for icebergs, to the man running and pulling on a giant ringing lever of some kind to tell the engine room what to do, the guys in the engine room running around in a pan…
Comment linking /gpt4all
on “OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models”Submitted Partisanship is an anti-pattern in trying to solve problems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNomic | Onsite NYC | Fulltime https://nomic.ai/careers - VP Sales & Partnerships - Customer Success Engineer - Developer Advocate - Front End Engineer Join us and help build the future of how people work with massive amounts of unstructured information. What do you get to do? - Help ship billions of embeddings daily to web browsers around the world - Work closely with a small team of ex-PhD's; professors; world expe…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Moe Embedding Model as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's a summary of what's happened the past couple of years and what tools are out there. After ChatGPT released, there was a lot of hype in the space but open source was far behind. Iirc the best open foundation LLM that existed was GPT-2 but it was two generations behind. Awhile later Meta released LLaMA[1], a well trained base foundation model, which brought an explosion to open source. It was soon implemented i…
Comment linking /gpt4all
on “Codestral Mamba”Yes, I'm planning out-of-the-box support for nomic[1] which can run in-process, and ollama which runs as a local server and supports many free embedding models[2]. [1]: https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/nomic-embed-text-v1 [2]: https://ollama.com/search?c=embedding
Comment linking /blog/posts/nomic-embed-text-v1
on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)”Huh, yeah you're right: that was January 25th 2024 https://openai.com/index/new-embedding-models-and-api-update... Nomic 1.5 was February 14th 2024: https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/nomic-embed-matryoshka
Comment linking /blog/posts/nomic-embed-matryoshka
on “Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering”The Matryoshka trick is really neat - there's a good explanation here: https://huggingface.co/blog/matryoshka I've seen it in a few models now - Nomic Embed 1.5 was the first https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/nomic-embed-matryoshka
Comment linking /blog/posts/nomic-embed-matryoshka
on “Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering”I like how Web Development and User Experience grouping is way outside the central bubble. Nonetheless, great visualization of a lot of data. I need to learn more about this: UMAP: https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Nomic-Embed: https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/nomic-embed-text-v1 The visual groupings aren't perfect. For example, there are a quite a few COVID-19 tagged articles before 2020.
Comment linking /blog/posts/nomic-embed-text-v1
on “Hacker News Data Map [180MB]”Hey Elliot, Andriy, co-founder at Nomic here! Congrats on Embed v4 - the more embeddings the merrier! Embed v1.5 is a 1.5 year old model! You should check out our latest comparable open-weights, multimodal embedding model that's designed for text, PDFs and images! I can't directly say anything about relative performance to Embed v4 as you guys didn't publish evals on the Vidore-V2 open benchmark! https://www.nomic.a…
Comment linking /blog/posts/nomic-embed-multimodal
on “Cohere Launches Embed 4”I have huge respect for Cohere and this embedding model looks like it could be best-in-class, but I find it hard to commit to a proprietary embedding model that's only available via an API when there are such good open weight models available. I really like the approach Nomic take: their most recent models are available via their API or as open weights for non-commercial use only (unless you buy a license). They lat…
Comment linking /blog/posts/nomic-embed-vision
on “Cohere Launches Embed 4”Nomic GPT4All https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/gpt4all-scaling-test-time-co... https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/releases
Comment linking /blog/posts/gpt4all-scaling-test-time-compute
on “Ask HN: What's Your Useful Local LLM Stack?”The article starts off by creating in-memory vector embeddings for a list of "documents" (aka chunks of text) using the nomic model: https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/nomic-embed-text-v1 They then use cosine similarity to compare the user's query to retrieve a list of "top N" embeddings which point to the doc chunks, then shove those into the entire query which is sent off to the LLM. RAG is just a means of injecting…
Comment linking /blog/posts/nomic-embed-text-v1
on “Ollama-Swift”Feb 12, 2025 [1] [1] https://www.nomic.ai/blog
Comment linking /blog
on “Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Moe Embedding Model”
