NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for Long-Running Agents
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-11
NVIDIA launched Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B parameter MoE model (3B active) optimized for the high-volume execution layer of always-on AI agents.
- Core Advantages: Using speculative decoding and quantization (NVFP4 and BF16), it achieves 4x the output speed of similar-sized models while maintaining strong accuracy.
- Architecture: Since long-running agents spend most of their time on tool calls and validation, using expensive frontier models is too costly. This model fills that specific execution gap.
- Ecosystem: Integrates with NeMo Switchyard for intelligent model routing, supports the NemoClaw security stack, and is released with permissive licensing and full recipes.
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