NVIDIA Nemotron
NVIDIA's open model family shipping weights, datasets, and full training recipes for agentic systems.
About
Nemotron is NVIDIA's umbrella for open models aimed at agentic AI, and it is unusual in shipping not just weights but the datasets and step-by-step training recipes behind them. The Nemotron 3 generation uses a hybrid Mamba-transformer mixture-of-experts backbone and spans Nano (31.6B total, 3.6B active) for edge and PC deployment, Nano Omni (30B/3B) for multimodal input, Super (120.6B/12.7B) for single-GPU throughput, and Ultra at 550B/55B for multi-GPU datacenters, with context windows reaching 1 million tokens; earlier Llama-Nemotron variants remain available. The GitHub repository collects cookbooks, deployment guides, and end-to-end examples under Apache-2.0, while model weights use the NVIDIA Open Model License, which permits commercial use, modification, redistribution, and hosted services without royalties. Pre-training, post-training, and reinforcement learning datasets are published openly on Hugging Face, and official documentation lives at docs.nvidia.com/nemotron. For teams standardizing on NVIDIA hardware the family offers a complete open pipeline from data to deployed agent.
Should you use NVIDIA Nemotron?
Pick it when
Pick this when you run NVIDIA hardware and want agent models plus the open pretraining, post-training, and RL datasets and recipes behind them, with sizes from Nano for PCs to Ultra for multi-GPU datacenters and up to 1M context.
Look elsewhere when
Skip it if your legal team wants a standard license, since weights use the NVIDIA Open Model License rather than Apache-2.0. For fully reproducible research OLMo is Apache-2.0 end to end; off NVIDIA hardware, gpt-oss runs in Ollama, llama.cpp, or on Metal.
Alternatives to NVIDIA Nemotron
- OLMo
Apache-2.0 with data, code, and intermediate checkpoints, better for reproducible research, but plain transformers without MoE or 1M context.
- gpt-oss
Apache-2.0 reasoning MoE at 20B and 120B with single-GPU targets, simpler licensing but no published training data.
- Jamba
Also a hybrid Mamba-transformer MoE under Apache-2.0 with 256K context, but without published datasets or a full size ladder.
- Tulu 3
Open post-training recipe and datasets you apply to your own base model, if you want the recipe without adopting NVIDIA's weights.
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Details
- Category
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Intermediate (3/5)
- License
- NVIDIA Open Model License
- Added
- Jul 29, 2026