Nemotron 3
NVIDIANemotron 3 is NVIDIA's open-weight family of instruction-tuned models for agentic reasoning, post-trained with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on Nemotron base models. It spans Nano (30B total, 3B active), Super (120B total, 12B active) and Ultra (550B total, 55B active) mixture-of-experts models, with a 1M-token context window on Super and Ultra. NVIDIA publishes training data and recipes with the weights, and the line is its reference for NeMo and NIM, tuned for NVIDIA hardware.
The declared BF16 checkpoints are the reference; the NVFP4, FP8 and GGUF builds are the same weights repackaged.
Openness
4 high confidence- weights
- open
- data
- open(~40M post-training/SFT+RL samples released as Nemotron-SFT-Data/Nemotron-RL-Data
- code
- open(training recipes + RL env configs)
- license
- NVIDIA-Nemotron-Open-Model-License(permissive,commercial,non-OSI)
NVIDIA releases the weights, post-training data and training recipes. Nano and Super ship under its own non-OSI Nemotron Open Model License and Ultra under the non-OSI OpenMDW License 1.1, and both permit commercial use. The pretraining side is thinner than NVIDIA's 'fully open' framing suggests: the specialized corpus is real data, but the code corpus ships only metadata describing it, and Ultra's code, math and multilingual data require gated approval.
- https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-nemotron-3-super-an-open-hybrid-mamba-transformer-moe-for-agentic-reasoning/ recorded 2026-08-13
NVIDIA primary blog - "Nemotron 3 Super is fully open-weights, datasets, and recipes"; license = NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License (non-OSI)
- https://huggingface.co/api/datasets/nvidia/Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v3 recorded 2026-08-13
67 files, 1.20GB, ungated, all under Nemotron-Code-Metadata/*.parquet -- metadata describing the code corpus, not the corpus itself
- https://huggingface.co/api/datasets/nvidia/Nemotron-Pretraining-Specialized-v1.2 recorded 2026-08-13
92 files, 53.62GB, ungated. Nemotron-Pretraining-Fact-Seeking/*.parquet and related synthetic pretraining sets.
- https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/Nemotron-3/ recorded 2026-08-13
Nemotron 3 Nano/Super/Ultra family; the Data section still lists Nemotron-SFT-Data ("Collection of new Nemotron 3 Nano SFT datasets") and Nemotron-RL-Data alongside the pretraining corpora, followed by a Model Recipes section
Adoption
4 high confidenceAdoption sums Hugging Face downloads across the three ungated BF16 repositories in the Nemotron 3 family: Nano, Super and Ultra. Quantized NVFP4, FP8 and GGUF builds are excluded to avoid double-counting the same weights, and the family is also distributed free through OpenRouter and NVIDIA's build/NIM platform, neither of which this count captures, so the reading is a floor rather than a ceiling.
- https://huggingface.co/api/models/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16 recorded 2026-08-13
914,120 downloads in the trailing 30 days, ungated
- https://huggingface.co/api/models/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16 recorded 2026-08-13
870,782 downloads in the trailing 30 days, ungated
- https://huggingface.co/api/models/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16 recorded 2026-08-13
441,153 downloads in the trailing 30 days, ungated
- https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/Nemotron-3/ recorded 2026-08-13
official distribution via NVIDIA build/NIM + HF for agentic use
Capability
5 high confidenceNemotron 3 Ultra, the family's largest model, sits in the same frontier tier as recent open models such as GLM-5.1, Kimi-K2.6 and DeepSeek-V4 in NVIDIA's own comparison, ahead on some benchmarks and behind on others; it trails them on SWE-Bench Verified (70.7 against 73.5 to 76.2). Super and Nano perform below it.
- https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-Technical-Report.pdf recorded 2026-08-13
Agentic Reasoning Benchmark table, N-3-Super column - MMLU-Pro 83.73, AIME25 (no tools) 90.21, GPQA (no tools) 79.23, SWE-Bench (OpenHands) 60.47; the Qwen3.5-122B-A10B column on the same rows reads 86.70 and 66.40, and the GPT-OSS-120B column 81.00 and 41.9
- https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/Nemotron-3/ recorded 2026-08-13
Nemotron 3 reasoning/agentic positioning - Nano "more accurate than GPT-OSS-20B and Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 on popular benchmarks"; Ultra released
Verified 2026-09-27, except some scores, still awaiting re-confirmation