Perplexity says it contributed to NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 mid-training, more coming
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-19
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open model with 120B total / 12B active parameters combining reasoning and tool use with text, image, document, and video understanding for long-running agents. A Perplexity engineer replied that Perplexity contributed during mid-training, teasing that "more coming soon."
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