NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 4x Faster Open Model for Agents
kuchaev · x · 2026-08-11
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open model optimized for high-volume agentic workloads.
- Architecture & Performance: Built on Nemotron 3.0 Nano (30B MoE, 3B active), it features updated pre-training, mid-training, and new SFT and RLVR pipelines to approach the accuracy of the 3.0 Super class.
- Inference Speed: Boosted MTP heads combined with DFlash and DSpark speculative decoding deliver major throughput gains, offering up to 4x the output speed of similar-sized models.
Related event: NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard Router(55 posts)→
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