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Morning Edition · Friday, October 16, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and a 74-billion-parameter Bolt model that fits in 24 gigabytes
Artificial Analysis scores Bolt at 21 on its Intelligence Index, within two points of NVIDIA's 550-billion-parameter Nemotron 3 Ultra, and scores Super VL at 26.
On October 15, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120-billion-parameter model for always-on enterprise agents, together with two edge models in the Nemotron 3.5 Bolt line. Benchmark trackers list Super VL with about 12 billion a…
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