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Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 12, 2026Published at 2:11 AM EDT · New York
Nvidia Releases a 31.6-Billion-Parameter Open Model That Activates 3.6 Billion Per Token
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning uses a hybrid Mamba-Transformer design, runs on a single H100, and scores 24 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index against 15 for its predecessor.
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 31.6 billion total parameters and roughly 3.6 billion active per token, published in both BF16 and NVFP4 four-bit checkpoints and available through Ollama…
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