Persimmon Built on NVIDIA's 550B Nemotron 3 Ultra with Thousands of Blackwell GPUs
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-09-11
Humans& shared training details for Persimmon: the model was mid- and post-trained starting from NVIDIA's 550B-parameter Nemotron 3 Ultra, using thousands of Blackwell-generation GPUs on a cluster the team recently built.
They note this is an early release, with tool use, longer horizons and more still on the roadmap.
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