Introducing ModernBERT: A Replacement for BERT

AI Impact Summary

OpenAI has released ModernBERT, a new family of encoder-only models designed as a direct replacement for BERT. ModernBERT offers improvements in speed and accuracy, including a 8192 sequence length, a larger model size (149M and 395M params), and increased context length to 8k tokens. This release is particularly relevant for teams utilizing BERT-like models in RAG pipelines, content moderation, and entity extraction, offering a more efficient and powerful alternative.