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Smol AI releases ModernBert, a small retriever/classifier with 8k context

Smol AI has released ModernBert, a new model designed for retrieval and classification tasks. It boasts an 8,000-token context window and was trained on 2 trillion tokens. This release positions ModernBert as a capable workhorse for specific AI applications. AI

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RANK_REASON Release of a new model from a non-frontier lab with technical specifications.

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    ModernBert: small new Retriever/Classifier workhorse, 8k context, 2T tokens,

    **Answer.ai/LightOn** released **ModernBERT**, an updated encoder-only model with **8k token context**, trained on **2 trillion tokens** including code, with **139M/395M parameters** and state-of-the-art performance on retrieval, NLU, and code tasks. It features **Alternating Att…