NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, Its Largest AI Model Yet
- NVIDIA unveiled the Nemotron 3 Ultra at Computex on June 1, featuring a massive open-weight model with a total of 550 billion parameters.
- The model operates with 55 billion active parameters using a mixture-of-experts design, delivering over 300 tokens per second.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra scores 48 on the Intelligence Index, making it the top U.S. open-weight model.
- Despite its speed, Nemotron is outperformed by China’s Kimi K2.6 from Moonshot AI which scores 54.
- NVIDIA plans to invest $26 billion over five years to enhance open-weight AI development.
NVIDIA’s release of the Nemotron 3 Ultra marks a significant step in U.S.-based AI development, showcasing advanced capabilities with its large parameter count and fast token processing speed.
However, despite these advancements, it still trails behind China’s Kimi K2.6 in intelligence ranking by six points on the Intelligence Index (Source).
