Nvidia’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now the leading US open weight model, scoring 26 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Nemotron 3.5 Super VL achieves twice the intelligence of its predecessor, Nemotron 3 Super (13), and does so using ~60% fewer output tokens per task It launches alongside Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB, the first model in its new Bolt family, which scores 21 on the Intelligence Index Congratulations to @NVIDIAAI on the releases! Key Takeaways: ➤ Leading US open weight model: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL scores 26.5, edging out Thinking Machines' Inkling Small (25.7) and ahead of NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra (23) and Meta's Muse Glimmer (17) ➤ Bolt comes within 2 points of Ultra: Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB scores 21, 1.5 points behind Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (23). The 2 bit memory has about a seventh of Ultra's parameters (74B vs 550B) and a sixth of its active parameters (9B vs 55B) ➤ Super 3.5 VL near lossless in NVFP4: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL releases in NVFP4, scoring within 0.1 points of its BF16 weights on the Intelligence Index, with no component moving by more than 2.6 points Nemotron 3.5 Super VL details Context window: 1M tokens Modalities: Vision and text input; text output Parameters: 120B / 12B Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB details Context window: 256k tokens Modalities: Vision and text input; text output Parameters: 74B / 9B