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Announcing Day-0 Support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on vLLM
vLLM · NVIDIA Nemotron Team and vLLM Team · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B parameter mixture-of-experts model optimized for agent tasks, now has day-zero support in vLLM serving framework.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers deploying agentic systems that need fast execution of frequent, well-scoped steps without sacrificing reasoning or tool-use capability.
- Watch out
- Model uses only 3B active parameters per token despite 30B total size; performance gains depend heavily on choosing appropriate speculative decoding method for your hardware.
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- llm
- speculative
- vllm
- edge
- nemotron
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- Edge AI Optimization
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