Shopify Post-Trains NVIDIA Nemotron to Beat Frontier Models at 90% Lower Cost
TimothyDuignan · x · 2026-10-23
NVIDIA's European retail blog highlights concrete results: Shopify post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (Megatron Bridge + NeMo RL) to surpass a frontier model on internal benchmarks while cutting serving costs 90% and serving 7x faster, with vLLM optimization bringing 4.5x speedups and up to 12x lower inference cost across five more use cases. L'Oréal integrates NVIDIA ALCHEMI with Orbital Industries' open-source OrbMol-v2 to screen ingredient combinations in hours instead of months (5x faster, 21% lower error), and Zooplus rebuilt product discovery for the agentic era.
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