
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Review: NVIDIA Bets on Speed
NVIDIA's 30B open-weight MoE model trades raw intelligence for throughput, and mostly delivers on that narrow promise, with real gaps independent testing already exposed.
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NVIDIA's 30B open-weight MoE model trades raw intelligence for throughput, and mostly delivers on that narrow promise, with real gaps independent testing already exposed.

River AI says it will free users from renting AI from closed labs. General Catalyst, AMP PBC, Temasek and NVIDIA, the money behind that pitch, are also major Anthropic investors.

NVIDIA distilled its 550B Nemotron 3 Ultra down to a 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters, aimed at the boring, high-volume work inside agent pipelines.

NVIDIA's 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters, distilled from Nemotron 3 Ultra, hits 86% PinchBench accuracy at up to 4x the output speed of comparable open models.

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