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NVIDIA releases open Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for always-on agents

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 3 billion active parameters, open weights, training data and recipes. The commercially usable model targets high-volume execution in long-running agents, runs on local hardware or data centers, and is distributed through open repositories, hosted APIs and cloud partners.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM48confidence 85/100

Why it moved the index

A permissively released, commercially deployable workhorse for always-on agents lowers cost and control barriers to persistent autonomous execution; magnitude 48 reflects meaningful diffusion below the capability frontier, while confidence 85 reflects dated primary launch and model-card evidence tempered by vendor-run performance claims.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 48 · confidence 85

    Initial inclusion from NVIDIA's newly dated launch post and exact public model card.

    11 Aug 2026
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