NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: Open 30B Agentic Model with 4x Faster Output | 2026-08-12
On August 11, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B (3B active) MoE agentic model with a Mamba-2 + MoE + Attention hybrid architecture and up to 1M token context, plus the open-source NeMo Switchyard routing library. NVIDIA claims up to 4x faster output and ~30% faster agentic task completion. Available on Hugging Face, ModelScope, OpenRouter, and as a NIM microservice; runs locally on RTX PCs and DGX Spark under the commercial-friendly OpenMDW-1.1 license.