Building a listed tool
Ben Schmidt
Chief Technology Officer; founding team member, named behind the Nomic Embed listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Ben builds
Nomic Embed D · Embeddings & rerankers
Nomic's hosted embedding endpoints on the Atlas API turn text and images into vectors with the open-weight Nomic Embed models. Agents call them over HTTP with an API key or through the Python and TypeScript clients.
Chief Technology Officer; founding team member, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Adam Treat Overall GPT4All project and Chat UI maintainer
- Andriy Mulyar Founder, Nomic, Inc.
- Brandon Duderstadt Historical founding CEO and Nomic Embed coauthor; now Calcifer Computing founder/CEO and Nomic advisor
- Jared Van Bortel GPT4All backend, Python binding and Python CLI maintainer
- Zach Nussbaum Original Nomic Embed model lead and first author; now Microsoft AI
Questions
Who is Ben Schmidt?
Ben Schmidt is chief Technology Officer; founding team member.
What does Nomic, Inc. make?
Anchor Terminal lists Nomic Embed from Nomic, Inc.. Nomic's hosted embedding endpoints on the Atlas API turn text and images into vectors with the open-weight Nomic Embed models. Agents call them over HTTP with an API key or through the Python and TypeScript clients.
How are Ben's tools graded?
Nomic Embed is graded D, 49.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (12)
- https://www.nomic.ai/about
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01613
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andriymulyar
- https://x.com/andriy_mulyar
- https://www.nomad.garden/posts/bio
- https://www.google.com/search?q=Brandon+Duderstadt+Nomic+founder
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bstadt
- https://www.google.com/search?q=Zach+Nussbaum+X
- https://x.com/zach_nussbaum
- https://www.google.com/search?q=Ben+Schmidt+Nomic+LinkedIn
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmschmidt
- https://www.nomic.ai/
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