Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
NVIDIA
reasoning

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1

NVIDIA 253B reasoning model derived from Llama 3.1 405B Instruct, ready for commercial use under the NVIDIA Open Model License plus the Llama 3.1 Community License.

Accuracy bar chart of Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra against leading open models.
Levelmodel
Classreasoning
Parameters253B
Context131,072
Released7 Apr 2025
Opennessopen weights restricted
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

vendor-reported
Reasoning on, pass@1vendor-reported
72.5
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Nemotron Ultra model cardApr 2025 huggingface.co
GPQAknowledge and reasoning
Reasoning on, pass@1vendor-reported
76.01
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Nemotron Ultra model cardApr 2025 huggingface.co
IFEvalknowledge and reasoning
Reasoning on, strict instructionvendor-reported
89.45
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Nemotron Ultra model cardApr 2025 huggingface.co
Reasoning on, 2024-08-01 to 2025-02-01 windowvendor-reported
66.31
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Nemotron Ultra model cardApr 2025 huggingface.co
Reasoning on, pass@1vendor-reported
97
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Nemotron Ultra model cardApr 2025 huggingface.co
Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

distill
Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct to Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1: distill, high confidenceLlama-3.1-405B-InstructLlama-3.1-405B-InstructMetaLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 2…NVIDIA, Apr 2025
MetaLlama-3.1-405B-Instruct is the parent (distill)high confidencemodel card
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 2 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
NVIDIA
Family
Nemotron
Released
7 Apr 2025 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
–
Record checked
11 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
dense transformer Derived from Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct by Neural Architecture Search, knowledge distillation (65B tokens) and continual pretraining (88B tokens), then SFT and GRPO
Total parameters
253B sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
131,072 tokens
Input
text
Output
text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights restricted
Licence
NVIDIA Open Model License sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
English and coding languages; also German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, Thai
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. huggingface.co/nvidia/Llama-3_1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Llama-3_1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1", https://aurion.semai.id/models/nvidia-llama-3-1-nemotron-ultra-253b-v1/, records of October 2026.