LightOn Releases Multilingual Retrieval Models and 2.8B Training Pairs
IgorCarron · x · 2026-07-30
LightOn has introduced two new multilingual retrieval models, mDenseOn and mLateOn, focusing on multilingual, long-context, and code retrieval.
The highlight of this release is its full openness. Alongside the models, the team has open-sourced a massive training corpus comprising 2.8 billion curated query-document pairs across 9 languages, including French, Italian, German, and Arabic. The developers claim these models achieve frontier performance in multilingual retrieval.
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