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Smaller models, less ceremony.
H Company’s NeoMME offers openly licensed, smaller multimodal encoders for retrieving text and visual documents.
H Company introduced NeoMME on 3 September: 260-million and 800-million-parameter models with Apache 2.0 checkpoints. A single bidirectional transformer processes text and image patches. The release targets multilingual, multimodal retrieval, including visual documents.

This is retrieval infrastructure, not a replacement for every general-purpose assistant. The distinction is rather the point. A business searching its own reports may value a compact specialist more than another model that can discuss everything at considerable length.
Try it against your existing search on real scans, tables and mixed-language documents. Measure missed answers and operating cost. A benchmark is an invitation to test, not permission to stop thinking.
Sources & publication notes
- Google · WeatherNext 3 · 3 September 2026 ↗
- OpenAI · Daybreak for frontline defenders · 3 September 2026 ↗
- H Company · NeoMME · 3 September 2026 ↗
Published in our 05/09/2026 edition. Source dates are shown above.
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