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RT by @huggingface: 💚 @nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is here to power more efficient agents! 30B…

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TL;DR - NVIDIA announced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a sparse 30B-parameter model designed for efficient, tool-using agents. It combines 3B active parameters with long-context and low-precision deployment options.

  • LatentMoE architecture with 30B total and 3B active parameters.
  • Supports NVFP4 and BF16 precision formats.
  • Offers up to a 1M-token context window, multilingual capabilities, and tool use.
  • Demonstrated with Nous Research’s Hermes Agent through Microsoft Foundry.

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