This release updates NVIDIA-hosted cloud endpoint defaults for embedding and reranking documentation and configuration. It does not change the default self-hosted/on-prem model choices or update any RAG Blueprint application container images, Helm chart versions, or Python library package versions.
Highlights
This release includes the following key updates:
- Default cloud embedding endpoint updated: NVIDIA-hosted cloud examples and environment overlays now use
nvidia/llama-nemotron-embed-vl-1b-v2with the API Catalog base URLhttps://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1. - Default cloud reranker endpoint updated: NVIDIA-hosted cloud examples and environment overlays now use
nvidia/llama-nemotron-rerank-vl-1b-v2with an empty reranker server URL so the NVIDIA API Catalog client uses the default hosted reranking endpoint. - Updated Docker Compose environment overlays,
variables.env, cloud deployment documentation, text-only ingest guidance, Python client examples, and notebook examples to align with the hosted embedding and reranker defaults. - Kept on-prem defaults unchanged: self-hosted embeddings continue to use the VLM embedding service, while the self-hosted reranker remains
nvidia/llama-nemotron-rerank-1b-v2.