Article:Chris Alexiuk and Chintan Patel
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: Compact MoE Model for Agentic Execution
NVIDIA has announced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model featuring 3B active parameters. It is tailored for the high-volume execution layer of long-running AI agents, targeting routine tasks such as tool calling and result validation with low latency.
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