NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Targets Fast Agent Execution
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters, optimized for high-volume agent tasks like tool calls and result validation. It aims to reduce cost and latency compared to using frontier reasoning models for every step in long-running agents.
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