Kari Briski

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model designed for specialized tasks in multi-agent AI systems, alongside NeMo Switchyard, an open source routing library. The model delivers up to 4x faster output speed and 30% faster agentic task completion compared to competitors in its class. Both tools enable enterprises to deploy customized AI across local systems, edge devices, and cloud infrastructure without rewriting applications.

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model that unifies vision, audio, and language processing in a single system. The 30B-A3B hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture eliminates the need for separate perception models, delivering up to 9x higher throughput than comparable open omni models while maintaining responsiveness. The model tops six leaderboards for document intelligence and audio/video understanding, and is available immediately via Hugging Face, OpenRouter, and 25+ partner platforms.