Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard to give enterprise AI capability options
Artificial intelligence silicon and software giant Nvidia Corp. today announced two new services: a highly customizable Nemotron model and an agentic AI model router named NeMo Switchyard.
As enterprises find themselves drowning in artificial intelligence model options, the question is no longer raw power and capability, but fit-for-what-purpose and when. As agents become the norm, the tasks they perform range from sequences of swift, simple tasks to high-complexity reasoning across deep knowledge domains. The former might require small models that can swiftly handle small sorting tasks efficiently and the latter would be best handled by frontier models with high intelligence and reasoning capability.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning joins the open model family to support high-volume tasks when powering always-on agents. It’s a 30 billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that Nvidia claims is capable of delivering up to four times the output speed and 30% faster agentic task completion compared with other models in its weight class. It’s also open and customizable, meaning it can be readily post-trained with Nvidia NeMo on an enterprise’s own hardware, with proprietary domain data, tools and workflows to improve accuracy for specialized tasks.
