id: nomic-ai__nomic-embed-text-v1.5__candidate
status: candidate
name: nomic-embed-text-v1.5
org: nomic-ai
source:
  kind: huggingface
  url: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
  revision: main
  model_card_url: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
license:
  spdx: Apache-2.0
  url: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
  allows_offline_retention: true
  allows_local_ops: true
  allows_fine_tune: true
  notes: ""
size:
  total_bytes: 0
  total_human: "<1 GB"
hardware_class:
  min_vram_gb_q4: 1
  min_vram_gb_fp16: 1
  notes: "CPU-friendly"
axes: [B]
priority: high
collection:
  approved_by: ""
  approved_at: null
  downloaded_at: null
  downloaded_by: ""
  storage_path: ""
  brief_refs:
    - research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md
reason: "P0 lightweight embed for A/B with BGE-M3; long-context text retrieval."
tags: [embedding, rag]
companions: []
notes: "If v2 text is preferred at collection time, update id/url and supersede this candidate."
history:
  - at: "2026-07-24"
    event: nominated
    by: baseline-survey
    detail: "P0 recommendation from initial deep research."