NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning with 1M Token Context
mervenoyann · x · 2026-08-11
NVIDIA has officially released the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model. Key features include:
- Architecture & Scale: Utilizes a Hybrid MoE architecture with 3B active parameters out of 30B total, supporting a massive 1M token context length.
- Performance: Touted as best-in-class across multiple benchmarks, specifically optimized for post-training.
- Ecosystem: Natively supported in the Hugging Face transformers library, shipping with DSpark and DFlash for faster inference and NVFP4 quantized checkpoints.
Related event: NVIDIA Open-Sources Nemotron Model and Agent Router(36 posts)→
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