Nvidia Ships 30B Nemotron Lightning, Opens Switchyard Router

Nvidia has shipped the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model designed for efficient agent workloads, alongside the open-source NeMo Switchyard, a routing library that dynamically directs tasks across models to reduce costs and latency. Real-world deployments have shown significant reductions in operational costs and runtime, enabling teams to run advanced AI stacks locally rather than relying solely on hosted APIs.

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