Morning Edition · Thursday, July 9, 2026Published at 1:49 AM EDT · New York
NVIDIA Says Nemotron 3 Ultra Leads Open Models on LangChain's Agent Suite
Tuned inside LangChain's Deep Agents harness, the model scores an aggregate 0.86 at $4.48 per run against $43.48 for the closest closed model.
NVIDIA and LangChain reported that Nemotron 3 Ultra, tuned inside LangChain's Deep Agents harness, reached the highest accuracy among open models on LangChain's internal agent evaluation while running at roughly one-tenth the inference cost…
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Open-Weight Models Close the Gap With Closed Frontier Labs
Over the next 3-9 months, open-weight releases with downloadable weights, long context, and strong agentic/coding performance increasingly match closed frontier models on practical work, eroding the closed-lab moat.
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