VP of Information Design @nomic_ai, building new ways to interpret and shape embedding models. Onetime history/digital humanities prof. @bschmidt.bsky.social

Joined December 2010
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Read and explore this rich interactive of 20 *million* research articles from PubMed, a project we're releasing today with @ritagonmar and @hippopedoid. It's a *beautiful* embedding structure, a fascinating, complete corpus. Some highlights (thread) static.nomic.ai/pubmed.html
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
7 Nov 2025
AI systems excel in domains that have abundant coverage in internet data. Large sectors of the economy are not digital-native. Their data, processes, and workflows are governed by signals that are out of distribution of foundation models. Introducing the new Nomic Platform
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
Nomic has a new X account. Stay tuned for some exciting updates over the next few months.
13 Aug 2025
We're re-branding! This is now the new official Nomic X account! Follow us for updates on new open-source AI models and platform developments!
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
13 Aug 2025
We're re-branding! This is now the new official Nomic X account! Follow us for updates on new open-source AI models and platform developments!
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
hiring an ml intern to work on vlm postraining for a special project, reports directly to me. must be exceptional. apply via dms.
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it works
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In general I try not to post high-quality original content to this account anymore, and I feel pretty confident that the above post doesn't violate that practice.
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
5 Mar 2025
Introducing Atlas Analyst: The Data Agent for Data Analytics Ask questions, get answers with references to your data, and immediately take action based on those insights.
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
Announcing the release of Common Corpus 2. The largest fully open corpus for pretraining comes back better than ever: 2 trillion tokens with document-level licensing, provenance and language information. huggingface.co/datasets/PleI…
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
Hugging Face is the hub for AI datasets and today we bring every dataset to life with Nomic's first-class Hugging Face data connector. With a few clicks, you can now vector search, curate, and collaborate on any dataset in @huggingface huggingface.co/blog/MaxNomic…
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
I created a map for Hub dataset cards using this new connector in less than 5 minutes.
24 Jan 2025
Vector Search Any Hugging Face Dataset 🤗 Introducing the @huggingface Datasets Connector in Nomic Atlas huggingface.co/blog/MaxNomic…
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
24 Jan 2025
Vector Search Any Hugging Face Dataset 🤗 Introducing the @huggingface Datasets Connector in Nomic Atlas huggingface.co/blog/MaxNomic…
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
27 Dec 2024
Introducing Open-Source, On-Device Inference-Time Compute in GPT4All - New : GPT4All Reasoner v1 - Support for Code Interpreter, Tool Calling and Code Sandboxing Inference-time compute is now available to every laptop in the world.
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
Comparing ModernBERT and BERT embeddings reveals some nice properties. The embeddings from the two base architectures show different features for this dataset in terms of class cohesion. atlas.nomic.ai/data/wilson/m…
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
4 Dec 2024
Ever wondered what the entire @Steam library of 100k games looks like mapped out? In this Atlas data map, you can explore neighborhoods of the landscape of video games and uncover hidden gems with descriptions that are semantically similar to your favorite titles!
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In the last five years there have been a lot of depressing and counterproductive university moves to cut humanities programs. This isn’t one. Middle-tier PhD programs in geographic regions that are already saturated with underemployed humanities PhDs are Bad Things.
“BU isn’t accepting new Ph.D. students for the next academic year in a dozen humanities and social sciences programs, including philosophy, English and history.” bit.ly/4hOyf9T
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
“BU isn’t accepting new Ph.D. students for the next academic year in a dozen humanities and social sciences programs, including philosophy, English and history.” bit.ly/4hOyf9T
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in NLP and Cultural Analytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 min from Denver and 1 hr from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by Dec 15!
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my group @uw_ischool in 2025-26. If you like the mountains and interdisciplinary research that blends data and culture, this could be a good fit! PhD apps due Dec 2: ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd/… More info about my group: melaniewalsh.org/mentorship
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Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social retweeted
31 Oct 2024
We're thrilled to welcome three experts as Nomic advisors, each bringing unique expertise that perfectly aligns with our mission to make AI and the data that goes into it more explainable and accessible.
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Really excited to start rolling out this scrollytelling mode for Atlas maps with an analysis of congressional tweets -- reach out if you have a story you want to tell about a big textual dataset!
30 Oct 2024
What do 3.2 million @X posts from Congress show about how US legislators talk? What are they posting about going into the 2024 US presidential election? Learn what we found in 3.2M posts from Congress using Nomic Atlas:
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