Scott Martens

Scott Martens

Principal Tech Writer II

Articles by Scott Martens

56% faster, up to 50% better retrieval performance: What's inside Jina's new 600 million parameter listwise reranker

Jina Reranker 3.5 beats v3 by 50%+ on case law, closes the gap with models 7x its size on legal, medical, and financial benchmarks, and beats them outright on structured data. It's a drop-in replacement for v3, with no API changes.

Felix Wang

On-prem in under 5 minutes: Jina embedding models now available for on-prem deployment

All 28 Jina AI models, including rerankers, as ready-to-deploy Docker containers, with zero telemetry and no license server. Drop-in compatible with OpenAI, Cohere, Voyage AI and Elastic Inference Service APIs.

Scott Martens

Small model, big benchmarks: how Jina-VLM beat the competition at 2.4B and what ICLR told us is coming next

Jina-VLM is a 2.4B open multilingual VLM leading VQA benchmarks across 29 languages. Plus: five days of ICLR 2026 takeaways on RLVR, sparse embeddings and retrieval.

Andreas Koukounas

One index, all media: Introducing jina-embeddings-v5-omni

jina-embeddings-v5-omni lets you embed text, images, video, and audio into a single Elasticsearch index and query across all of them at once.

Scott Martens

jina-embeddings-v5-text: Compact state-of-the-art text embeddings for search and intelligent applications

Introducing jina-embeddings-v5-text models, including jina-embeddings-v5-text-small and jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano, and explaining how to use these multilingual embedding models via Elastic Inference Service (EIS).

Scott Martens

An introduction to Jina models, their functionality, and uses in Elasticsearch

Explore Jina multimodal embeddings, Reranker v3, and semantic embedding models, and how to use them natively in Elasticsearch.

Scott Martens

jina-vlm: Seeing like an AI with vision language models

Learn about vision language models (VLMs), what jina-vlm can do, how to use it, and best practices.

Scott Martens

NeurIPS 2025 highlights: From model merging to deep learning for code

Explore our NeurIPS 2025 highlights on model merging, task vectors, and VLM dynamics, plus our DL4C workshop presentation on Jina code embeddings.

Scott Martens

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