NVIDIA's Catanzaro: Planning to Release Stronger Internal Teacher Models
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-08-24
Bryan Catanzaro, Head of Nemotron at NVIDIA, revealed that the company has internal "teacher" models that beat everything it has publicly shipped and he is trying to release them via the Nemotron project. Key points:
- Internal Models: NVIDIA possesses a collection of teacher models individually better at different domains than any released model.
- Distillation Tech: Using teacher models and multi-domain on-policy distillation has been key.
- Open Source Strategy: Open source is good business for NVIDIA. Nemotron is an open technology effort including datasets and techniques. Further AI development and deployment create business opportunities for NVIDIA, motivating them to grow the ecosystem.
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