Nemotron 3.5 Lightning's agentic capabilities are a step change for the Nemotron
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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A quarter of gpt-oss-120b's parameters at similar performance and far higher output speed makes Lightning worth testing in latency-sensitive AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → pipelines — though 24% on Terminal-Bench means it isn't ready to run unsupervised.
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