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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard for Agentic AI | vendor-release

On August 11, 2026 NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30 billion total parameter mixture of experts model ready for commercial use, alongside NeMo Switc…

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Aug 12, 2026, 1:40 AM UTC

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Aug 11, 2026

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Aug 12, 2026, 1:40 AM UTC

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The model uses a Mamba 2 + MoE + Attention hybrid architecture with up to 1M tokens of context length and is available in NVFP4 and BF16 quantizations under the OpenMDW 1.1 license for agentic AI workloads. On the NVFP4 quantization Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scored 81.62 on MMLU Pro, 75.57 on GPQA Diamond (no tools), and 52.80 on SWE bench Verified. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is available on Hugging Face, ModelScope, OpenRouter, and build.nvidia.com as an NVIDIA NIM microservice; NeMo Switchyard is available on GitHub.