NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, open 30B MoE agentic model
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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning pairs 30B LatentMoE parameters with 3B active, delivering up to 4x output speed and up to 1M context. The NVFP4 checkpoint compresses 66 GB to 22 GB; Perplexity Agent API pricing is $0.0115 input / $0.17 output per 1M tokens. Available open on Hugging Face and SageMaker JumpStart.
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3 weeks · 24 reports · 14 community posts · from Jul 28
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Nvidia's Switchyard router reshuffles AI models mid-task, cutting task costs to a third in its own testsventurebeat.com
Nvidia launches a smaller, faster Nemotron model and a router to put it to workthenewstack.io
NVIDIA and Local AI Community Fuel Open Source Models and Intelligent Agentsblogs.nvidia.com
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard Deliver Faster, Smarter, More Efficient Agentic AIblogs.nvidia.com
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Delivers Fast, Accurate Specialized Task Execution for Long-Running Agentsdeveloper.nvidia.com
Route AI Agent Workloads Across Models with NVIDIA NeMo Switchyarddeveloper.nvidia.com
Nvidia unveils first open-source AI model since CEO Jensen Huang entered the chatcnbc.com
How to Route AI Agent Workloads Across Models with NVIDIA NeMo Switchyardyoutube.com
Meet Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ⚡youtube.com
Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on DGX Sparkyoutube.com
How many of your agent's calls actually need a frontier model?langchain.com
Ask the Experts: What's New in the Nemotron Open Family | Nemotron Labsyoutube.com
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16huggingface.co
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From BERT to Frontier Agents: Eight Years of Language-Model Progress, the Collapse of the Capability-Cost Curve, and the Rise of Task-Targeted Modelsarxiv.org
Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokensinterconnects.ai
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStartaws.amazon.com
Developing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 with QAD Using NVIDIA Model Optimizerdeveloper.nvidia.com
The core of open-source AI is that the training recipe itself is the closest analogue to Linux and o...
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