vLLM Announces Day-0 Support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning MoE Model
AccBalanced · x · 2026-08-12
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open-source model designed for always-on agents, and vLLM has announced Day-0 support.
- Architecture: Features a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) design with 30B total parameters and only 3B active parameters per token, utilizing multi-token prediction to reduce compute.
- Performance: Delivers up to 4x higher throughput and 30% faster task completion compared to similarly sized open models.
- Use Cases: Optimized for high-volume agentic tasks, excelling at coding, tool use, and multi-turn instruction following via an OpenAI-compatible API.
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