Tier 3 Practical open-weight
What the publisher claims: open-source, open-weight
The one-liner: Apache-2.0 embeddings with Matryoshka truncation support.
The six questions
A AccessScore 3 of 3
weights downloadable
P PermissionScore 3 of 3
Apache 2.0
D DeploymentScore 3 of 3
standard tooling
T TransparencyScore 1 of 3
model cards and evals only
R ReproducibilityScore 1 of 3
Limited to moderate.
G Governance & ParticipationScore 2 of 3
nomic-ai/nomic shows 279 merged PRs with 228 from external contributors — real but corporate-directed.
License
Apache 2.0 OSI-approved — license source ↗
What is actually released
- weights
- ONNX and OpenVINO builds
- custom modeling code
- model cards
- MTEB results
- technical report
Why it matters
Same permissive pattern, and a useful example of flexibility features (variable dimensions) shipped as part of the open artefact.
Sources
- https://huggingface.co/api/models/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe
- https://huggingface.co/api/models/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
Derived from the openness dataset behind But Is It Open? — snapshot 2026-11-07 ↗. Scores are qualitative readings of the cited evidence, not verdicts; tier measures openness, not intelligence.