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One of the most significant launches in recent months in the Polish artificial intelligence landscape has just arrived. Developed within the Gaia AI Factory, the Polish ModernBERT family of language models establishes a new benchmark for Polish language understanding, already outperforming previous state-of-the-art Polish language models in a wide range of tasks. Importantly, this is not another chatbot. Instead, it provides a foundational technology on which modern, cost-efficient AI systems for business, public administration, and science can be built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Breakthrough for Polish AI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While generative AI models that write text and answer questions attract most of the public attention, many of the most effective real-world business solutions rely on less visible but equally important technologies. Polish ModernBERT belongs to this category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The model was designed with one primary objective: achieving the highest possible quality of Polish language understanding. As a result, it can serve as the backbone of systems that analyze documents, classify content, retrieve information, and identify key concepts across vast collections of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Dr. Eng. Marek Koz\u0142owski, Head of the AI LAB at the National Information Processing Institute (OPI PIB), the institution responsible for developing the models within Gaia AI Factory, explains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPolish ModernBERT is a representation model designed for high-quality understanding of Polish-language text and for building rich semantic representations of that text. It is not intended for content generation, but rather for analysis, comparison, and information retrieval.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Record-Breaking Performance Among Polish Encoder Models<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In evaluations covering as many as 30 diverse natural language understanding tasks, Polish ModernBERT achieved the best results among comparable Polish encoder-only language models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Particularly impressive performance was observed in processing long documents such as legal acts, reports, and extensive studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The model can effectively analyze documents containing up to 8,000 tokens, maintaining high accuracy while requiring fewer computational resources than previous solutions. The Base variant, capable of efficient operation even on CPUs, achieved superior performance while reducing the number of parameters by 22% compared to the reference model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Millions of Documents? That’s Its Natural Environment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The true strength of Polish ModernBERT becomes apparent wherever organizations must work with massive document collections, including lengthy files spanning several or even dozens of pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The model can be used for:<\/p>\n\n\n