The NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B NIM container packages NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B, a large language model trained by NVIDIA, as an NVIDIA NIM microservice.
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B NIM Overview
Description:
The NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B NIM container packages NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B, a large language model trained by NVIDIA, as an NVIDIA NIM microservice. The model uses a hybrid Latent Mixture-of-Experts architecture with interleaved Mamba-2 and Mixture-of-Experts layers, select Attention layers, and Multi-Token Prediction layers for faster text generation and improved quality. It has 30B total parameters, 3B active parameters, and supports context length up to 1M tokens. The container exposes industry-standard OpenAI-compatible APIs for integration into AI agent systems, chatbots, RAG pipelines, and other AI-powered applications.
The container components are ready for early access evaluation.
License/Terms of Use:
GOVERNING TERMS: Use of this container is governed by the NVIDIA Software License Agreement and the Product-Specific Terms for AI Products.
You are responsible for ensuring that your use of NVIDIA provided models complies with all applicable laws.
Deployment Geography:
Global
Release Date:
NGC 08/11/2026 via link
Program Classes:
The NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B NIM Container includes the following model:
| Model Name & Link | Use Case | How to Pull the Model |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B | General-purpose reasoning and chat, AI agents, RAG pipelines, chatbots, coding assistance, and instruction-following in English, coding languages, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Japanese | Automatic (embedded in container) |
Deployment Details:
Visit the NIM Container LLM page for release documentation, deployment guides, and more.
Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA's hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions.
Operating System: Linux
Reference(s):
- NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B Model Card
- NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B on HuggingFace
Security Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)
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