Nemotron 3.5 Embed 8B vs Nemotron Colembed VL 8B v2

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Specs

SpecNemotron 3.5 Embed 8BNemotron Colembed VL 8B v2
Context33K262K
WeightsNot verifiedOpen
Released—Jan 2026
Dimensions—4,096
Max input33K tokens262K tokens
Memory (4-bit)—5.2 GB
Licence—https://huggingface.co/nvidia/nemotron-colembed-vl-8b-v2/blob/main/LICENSE
Commercial use—Not allowed

What breaks when you switch

Nemotron 3.5 Embed 8B → Nemotron Colembed VL 8B v2
Re-embed your whole corpus›

Vectors from different models can't be mixed.

Nemotron Colembed VL 8B v2 → Nemotron 3.5 Embed 8B
Re-embed your whole corpus›

Vectors from different models can't be mixed.

Max input: 262K tokens → 33K tokens