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BidirLM is a family of 5 frontier bidirectional encoders, including an omnimodal variant at 2.5B, adapted from causal decoder LLMs. Contrary to contrastive-only models, BidirLM relies on a prior masking phase (MNTP) that enables state-of-the-art results on task-specific fine-tuning (NER, classification, NLI) while achieving frontier performance on embedding benchmarks (MTEB) against open-source alternatives. > *From the paper. MTEB(Multilingual, v2) below matches the paper; the LongEmbed table reports additional long-context results.* (\*) Evaluated at `max_seq_length=512`, matching the paper. The architecture supports much longer context (see the LongEmbed table below); on the MTEB leaderboard the shared LEMBPasskeyRetrieval task is scored at long context, making the leaderboard MTEB(Multilingual, v2) ~0.4 higher than this table.

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