Nvidia Unveils Open AI Models: 120B-Parameter Super VL Completes Tasks 5x Faster for Enterprises

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Nvidia released three open AI models designed for agentic workloads: the 120-billion-parameter Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for enterprise agents and two lightweight Bolt models for local deployment on AI PCs. Super VL claims 5x faster task completion than competitors while maintaining accuracy approaching Nvidia's largest reasoning model. The release marks a strategic shift as US-based labs challenge China's dominance in open-weight AI development.

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Nvidia Expands Open AI Models Portfolio with Speed-Focused Enterprise Solution

Nvidia has launched three new open AI models targeting different deployment scenarios, headlined by the Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120-billion-parameter model built specifically for enterprise AI agents

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. The company claims Super VL completes tasks five times faster than the nearest competitor in its class while delivering accuracy comparable to Nvidia's largest reasoning model despite using roughly one-fifth as many parameters

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. This positions the model as a practical choice for organizations seeking to deploy customizable AI models without sacrificing performance for efficiency.

The release includes two additional variants under the Nemotron 3.5 Bolt family: the 74-billion-parameter Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB designed for local agentic tasks, and the compact Bolt E4B 4GB aimed at conversational agents

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. These smaller models enable local deployment on AI PCs running Nvidia RTX Spark chips and workstations equipped with DGX Spark, allowing users to delegate everyday projects without sending workloads to the cloud

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. Super VL and Bolt 74B-A9B are available immediately, with Bolt E4B scheduled for release on October 23

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Enterprise Adoption Signals Confidence in Open-Weight AI Models

Major enterprises have already begun customizing Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for specialized applications across industries. Scale AI adapted the model for Skydance's vendor credit finance agent and EY's merger-and-acquisition due diligence agent

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. Other early adopters include Ramp, Crowdstrike, Perplexity, and Salesforce, demonstrating confidence in the model's capabilities for document intelligence, financial accounting, scientific experimentation, medical insurance claims, and security attack resilience

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AfterQuery customized Super VL for Hebbia's credit agreement analysis, while AI21 and Alice focused on cybersecurity applications

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. Mercor has post-trained the model for coding tasks covered by the APEX-SWE benchmark

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. This diverse adoption pattern underscores the appeal of open-weight AI models that organizations can post-train on their own data, deploy on their own infrastructure, and own what they build—unlike closed frontier models

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US Labs Challenge China's Open-Weight Dominance

The Nemotron 3.5 release represents another data point in the growing competition between US-based and Chinese AI labs in the open-weight space. China-based labs have historically held the upper hand on competitive open AI models, but recent Western releases are closing the geography gap

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. French lab Mistral recently launched its Le Chonk model, achieving certain state-of-the-art benchmarks, while Reflection AI—in which Nvidia has invested and is in talks to acquire—released its Beam model last week

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Artificial Analysis' benchmark testing positioned Super VL significantly ahead of competitors InclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Flash and DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash

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. The industry is embracing open-weight AI models more readily following the OpenAI Hugging Face breach, which dispelled the notion that only open models posed security risks

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. If US-made open models prove themselves against Chinese alternatives, this could accelerate adoption in areas where cybersecurity guidance discourages using foreign technology

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Expanded Model Portfolio Targets European Sovereign Intelligence

At GTC Berlin, Nvidia unveiled additional open-weight models spanning embedding, autonomous vehicles, and specialized applications to capitalize on European sovereign AI demand

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. The refreshed Nemotron Retriever models support embedding and reranking for RAG workflows, handling both images and text across 34 languages

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. These models range from one to eight billion parameters, with NVFP4-quantized versions optimized for Blackwell-based accelerators

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Nvidia claims its eight-billion-parameter embedding and reranking models now rank as the top dense models on the ViDoRe V3.1 benchmarks at BF16-precision

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. The company also launched a refreshed Nemotron Parse model trained specifically to extract information from PDF documents, processing approximately 10.5 pages per second when running the one-billion-parameter model on a single H100

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. The Alpamayo 2 Edge model for autonomous vehicles promises real-time processing of streaming video and sensor data on Nvidia's DRIVE AGX Thor platform

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Strategic Positioning Against Proprietary Frontier Labs

Nvidia's aggressive expansion into open AI models reflects a strategic response to shifting market dynamics. While the GPU giant has an entire family of Nemotron models covering multimodal artificial intelligence, reasoning, coding, math, and enterprise automation, proprietary AI labs—which are both Nvidia's customers and investments—are increasingly looking beyond Nvidia to power their needs

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. AWS's Trainium, Cerebras, and home-grown chips are emerging as alternatives

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Nvidia is leaning heavily into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers for on-premise AI deployment

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. The company's approach differs from most open-weight releases by including not just the model weights but also training data and recipes, allowing customers to build fully custom models based on Nvidia's Nemotron architecture rather than relying solely on post-training fine-tuning

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. Super VL's training process covered approximately 26 trillion tokens, with post-training involving around 3.8 million samples followed by reinforcement learning across dozens of environments

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Local AI PC Market Addresses Privacy Concerns

With the smaller Bolt models, Nvidia is pushing forward the nascent trend of consumer autonomous agents while addressing privacy concerns. Privacy-conscious consumers may hesitate to invite AI agents deeply into their lives with access to family, health, and financial information

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. Local deployment on AI PCs powered by RTX Spark chips offers an alternative that keeps sensitive data on-device

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The Bolt 74B-A9B uses native 2-bit quantization to fit within 24GB of memory, allowing compatible systems to run the model alongside other applications for multistep reasoning, tool calling, and web browsing

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. Nvidia ranks this model first among open models in its class on PinchBench and second place among open models on BrowseComp

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. The compact Bolt E4B targets conversational agents and physical AI systems running on Nvidia Jetson hardware

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. These AI PCs are being released through partners like Microsoft and Dell, aimed at consumers, programmers, and enterprise knowledge workers

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