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NVIDIA Nemotron

NVIDIA Nemotron is a model family from NVIDIA1, with 5 assessed releases in this catalog. Licenses and availability are recorded for each release, not for the family; its releases use the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License and the OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1.

Nemotron is NVIDIA's family of models for building AI agents. The current generation is organized into Nano, Lightning, Super, and Ultra tiers; NVIDIA publishes the weights on Hugging Face and, for several releases, training datasets and training recipes.123

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Releases assessed

Each release is assessed on its own. This family has no family-wide openness label.
Releases in the NVIDIA Nemotron family
ReleaseWeightsTier (USASI rubric v0.2)LicenseReleased
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12BWeights: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weightNVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License, Apache-2.0Mar 11, 2026
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55BWeights: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weightOpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1, Apache-2.0Jun 4, 2026
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3BWeights: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weightOpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1, Apache-2.0Aug 11, 2026
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B-A12BWeights: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weightOpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1, Apache-2.0Oct 15, 2026
NVIDIA Nemotron Labs Dory1.0-4BWeights: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weightOpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1Oct 16, 2026

What it is useful for

NVIDIA describes the tiers as ranging from efficient sub-agents and high-volume task execution to multi-agent reasoning and complex agentic tasks.13

Organization context

In the news

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  1. · Release

    NVIDIA releases Nemotron Labs Dory1.0-4B, a looped language model, under OpenMDW-1.1

    NVIDIA published NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-Dory1.0-4B on Hugging Face with a model card that gives a release date of October 16, 2026 and the OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 as its license. The card describes a 4B-parameter looped (latent-recurrent) language model that applies a shared block of layers repeatedly, so that a single checkpoint can serve different inference compute budgets by changing the loop count. It says the model was pre-trained natively in NVFP4 before continuing in BF16, supports up to 256K tokens of context, lists English as the supported language, and is available in BF16, MXFP8, NVFP4, and Q5_K_M formats. USASI has not tested this model.

  2. · Release

    NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B open models under OpenMDW-1.1

    On October 15, 2026 NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB, and said a third model, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, is coming October 23. The Super VL model card lists 120B total and 12B active parameters, a context length of up to 1M tokens, and text, image, and video input with text output. The Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB model card describes a vision-language model with 74B total and 9B active parameters that uses a native 2-bit quantization to fit in 24GB of memory, with a context length of up to 256K tokens. Both model cards give a Hugging Face release date of October 15, 2026 and name the OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 as the governing license. USASI has not tested these models.

  3. · Release

    NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Diarization, an open-weight speaker diarization model

    NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Diarization on September 23, 2026. The model identifies which speaker is talking at each point in an audio recording, for up to eight speakers, and can run on streaming audio as well as complete recordings. It is a Transformer encoder with about 100 million parameters, built with NVIDIA's NeMo speech tools. The weights are on Hugging Face under the OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1, and the model card says they are ready for commercial and non-commercial use.

  4. · Release

    Salesforce and NVIDIA announce Koa, a CRM reasoning model post-trained from NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super

    On September 15, 2026 Salesforce and NVIDIA announced Koa, which it calls its first CRM reasoning model, built to help Agentforce agents reason through multistep workflows and use the right tools. Salesforce says Koa is a post-trained version of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, trained with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on a proprietary synthetic dataset, and that no customer data was used in training. Koa is available to select pilot customers in Agentforce, with general availability expected in winter 2026 in U.S. regions. Salesforce says it controls the model weights and runs Koa within its own infrastructure as a Salesforce-hosted option; the announcement does not say that the weights will be released. USASI has not tested Koa.

  5. · Release

    NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B mixture-of-experts model for agents

    NVIDIA's Hugging Face model card gives August 11, 2026 as the release date of NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B, a model with 30B total and 3B active parameters built on a hybrid of Mamba-2, mixture-of-experts and attention layers, with reasoning that can be switched on or off through the chat template. The card lists the OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1, and points to a separate NVFP4 checkpoint for optimized inference. NVIDIA's developer blog says the model is designed for the high-volume execution work of long-running agents, ships with DFlash and DSpark draft models for speculative decoding, and is released with an open reinforcement learning dataset, Nemotron-RL Agentic Terminal Pivot. USASI has not tested the model.

U.S. eligibility

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Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

The Nemotron family is developed by NVIDIA Corporation, which has its principal executive offices in Santa Clara, California, per its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 26, 2026.14

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Sources

  1. 1.
    NVIDIA Nemotron (external site: developer.nvidia.com)

    NVIDIA · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  2. 2.
    NVIDIA Nemotron v3 collection (external site: huggingface.co)

    NVIDIA (Hugging Face) · Model card · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  3. 3.
  4. 4.
    NVIDIA Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 26, 2026 (external site: sec.gov)

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · Filing · published Aug 26, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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@misc{usasi_nemotron,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {NVIDIA Nemotron},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/open/nemotron/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-09-29}
}

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