Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B
- Made by
- NVIDIA
- Released
- Announced in
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard Deliver Faster, Smarter, More Efficient Agentic AIblogs.nvidia.com
- Event
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
- API record
- /api/v1/models/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b
Benchmark results
| Benchmark | Score | Source check |
|---|---|---|
| Humanity's Last ExamNo tools · text-only subset | 11.72% | CheckedA person checked this number against its source on 19 Oct 2026. This confirms the number matches what the lab published, not that the score was reproduced.CorroboratedThe same number is printed in 1 other lab document: 1 |
| average of 2 runs · reported later, in Nemotron 3.5 Super and Lightning: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Models for Agentic AI | 10.80% | CorroboratedThe same number is printed in 1 other lab document: 1 |
| GPQA Diamondno tools | 75.44% | CheckedA person checked this number against its source on 19 Oct 2026. This confirms the number matches what the lab published, not that the score was reproduced.CorroboratedThe same number is printed in 1 other lab document: 1 |
| no tools; average of 2 runs · reported later, in Nemotron 3.5 Super and Lightning: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Models for Agentic AI | 76.45% | CorroboratedThe same number is printed in 1 other lab document: 1 |
| BrowseComp | 36.97% | CheckedA person checked this number against its source on 19 Oct 2026. This confirms the number matches what the lab published, not that the score was reproduced.CorroboratedThe same number is printed in 1 other lab document: 1 |
| average of 2 runs · reported later, in Nemotron 3.5 Super and Lightning: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Models for Agentic AI | 39.50% | CorroboratedThe same number is printed in 1 other lab document: 1 |
Sources
Reported by NVIDIA
- nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 model card (launch-day revision)huggingface.co · 11 Aug 2026

Our capture of the source - Nemotron 3.5 Super and Lightning: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Models for Agentic AIresearch.nvidia.com · 15 Oct 2026

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