NVIDIA Expands Open Model Family: Nemotron 3.5, Cosmos 3.5, Kumo, BioNeMo and Ising
NVIDIA Blog · rss · 2026-10-21
NVIDIA unveiled a broad expansion of its open model portfolio spanning language, robotics, biology and quantum computing:
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL / Bolt: open text+image LLMs with datasets and recipes, built with European partners including Mistral and Black Forest Labs; adopted by Dassault Systèmes, SAP, Salesforce and others
- Nemotron Retriever: embedding, reranking and document parsing models
- Kumo: open foundation models for structured business data (forecasting, fraud scoring, recommendations); early users include Coinbase, DoorDash, Revolut
- Cosmos 3.5: world models with new post-training tools and a Data Factory pipeline; used by Porsche, Siemens and more
- Alpamayo 2 Edge: real-time AV reasoning model built on Cosmos 3 Edge, optimized for DRIVE AGX Thor
- BioNeMo RFD4-Proteina: protein design model with UW's Baker Lab, 13x faster than RFdiffusion3 on 200-AA benchmarks
- Ising: open quantum models for hardware calibration and error correction, used by IQM, SEEQC and AWS
All are available via Hugging Face, GitHub and build.nvidia.com.
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