Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B-parameter MoE model that it says delivers up to 4x faster output speeds, and an agentic AI model router
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Open, fast 30B MoE plus a first-party agentic router is Nvidia moving upstack from chips into how enterprises actually run workloads. If you’re building agents, assume “pick a model” becomes “plug into Nvidia’s routing fabric” and plan for vendor concentration risk accordingly.
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