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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Ollama · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B parameter open model with 3B active parameters per token, available on Ollama for local device deployment.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building local AI agents, coding assistants, security tools, or multi-step workflows where data privacy and low latency matter most.
- Watch out
- Model uses Mixture-of-Experts architecture; actual performance depends on your hardware. Benchmarks compare against other open models, not closed commercial alternatives.
- agent
- llama
- nemotron
Who else ran this
- Announcing Day-0 Support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on vLLMvLLM
- Small Model, Big Leverage: What We Learned Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning with an Autonomous AgentFastino
- Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 LightningBaseten
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Delivers Fast, Accurate Specialized Task Execution for Long-Running AgentsNVIDIA Developer
- Developing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 with QAD Using NVIDIA Model OptimizerNVIDIA Developer
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The patterns behind this
- Local-Distant Agent Data Protection Pattern
- Privacy and Security UX
- MAESTRO Multi-Agent Security Pattern
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