Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
NVIDIA
LLM

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning hybrid Mamba MoE model.

Accuracy chart from the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B model card.
Levelmodel
ClassLLM
Parameters30B
Contextnot in the notes
Released2026
Opennessopen source
Runs onconsumer GPU
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

maintainer-run
SEA-HELMSoutheast Asian and Indonesian
maintainer-run
64.34 95% CI [-1.36, +1.37]
04080

Score in score. Higher is better.

SEA-HELM Indonesian, open-weight models, average of 2,000 bootstraps18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
maintainer-run
46.06 95% CI [-0.54, +0.54]
04080

Score in score. Higher is better.

SEA-HELM SEA average, open-weight models18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
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).

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
NVIDIA
Family
Nemotron 3
Released
2026 sourcesnotes
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 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
hybrid Hybrid Mamba MoE
Total parameters
30B sources
Active parameters
3.5B
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
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 source
Licence
OpenMDW License v1.1 sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
consumer GPU
Footprint
Consumer GPU at NVFP4 (listed at 18B)
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
measured on a benchmark
  • SEA-HELM Indonesian leaderboard (ID aggregate, first score column of the Indonesian Competency and Task Scores table): 64.34 (95% CI -1.36 to +1.37), run by AI Singapore (SEA-HELM leaderboard maintainer) leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Lineage

The notes record no lineage for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. huggingface.co/nvidia https://huggingface.co/nvidia
  2. huggingface.co/nvidia/models?search=nemotron-3 https://huggingface.co/nvidia/models?search=nemotron-3
  3. SEA-HELM Leaderboard leaderboard.sea-lion.ai/detailed/SEA https://leaderboard.sea-lion.ai/detailed/SEA
  4. SEA-HELM Leaderboard leaderboard.sea-lion.ai/detailed/ID https://leaderboard.sea-lion.ai/detailed/ID

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B", https://aurion.semai.id/models/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b/, records of October 2026.