NVIDIA Open-Sources Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for AI Agents
NVIDIA has released the open-source Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model for continuously running AI agents.
It is a model with 30 billion parameters, of which only 3 billion are activated. Thanks to this, generation speed is up to four times higher than models of comparable size.
In PinchBench, it achieved 86% accuracy and completed 10,000 tasks 35% faster than Qwen3.6 35B with comparable accuracy.
The model can be fine-tuned on custom data, tools, and workflows. It is compact enough to run even on DGX Spark.
Along with it, NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard — a library that distributes different stages of agent work across models. Complex reasoning and planning can be delegated to advanced models, while mass task execution goes to the fast Lightning.