Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
NVIDIA · · 68 days after Nemotron 3 Ultra
Verified
2 of 2 published values traced to a source1 primary source, 1 archived2 not disclosed by the lab
Why this status
Cited to the lab's own announcement, and every value it asserts was found there.
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A 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters, released with permissive licensing, weights, data and recipes, and aimed at long-running agent harnesses.
Details
| Released | August 11, 2026stated in developer.nvidia.comNemotron 3.5 Lightning was released on August 11, 2026.
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| Company | NVIDIA |
| Family | Nemotron |
| Era | Agentic systems |
| Type | Language model · LLM |
| Modalities | Not recorded |
| Capabilities | Agentic |
| Weights | Open weights |
| Licence | Not disclosed |
| Context window | Not disclosed |
| Parameters | 30Bstated in developer.nvidia.comNemotron 3.5 Lightning has 30,000,000,000 parameters.
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Release timeline
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- Announced developer.nvidia.com
- Weights published developer.nvidia.com
Current information, elsewhere
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- Current benchmark scores Artificial Analysis ↗
- Weights and model card Hugging Face ↗
Sources
Record status: verified · confidence 90/100 · 1 of 1 primary
Cited to the lab's own announcement, and every value it asserts was found there.
- developer.nvidia.com Official announcement archived
Primary means published by the organisation that made the model. Verified records require at least one.
Nemotron family
- Nemotron-4 340B June 14, 2024
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B December 23, 2025
- Nemotron 3 Super March 11, 2026
- Nemotron 3 Ultra June 4, 2026
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning August 11, 2026
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL October 15, 2026
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B October 15, 2026
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