H Company Releases NeoMME, an Open-Source Multimodal Encoder Family

H Company researchers released NeoMME on September 3, 2026, a family of 260M- and 800M-parameter multimodal and multilingual encoders trained from scratch and published under the Apache 2.0 license. Fine-tuned retrieval variants sit on the model-size Pareto frontier of the ViDoRe v3 visual document retrieval benchmark, the team reported. According to the release post, many recent visual document retrievers are adapted from pretrained generative vision-language models, in which a separately…

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