NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
What changed
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning August 11, 2026 NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now available on Ollama, and it runs completely on your own device. It’s a 30 billion parameter (3B active) open model from NVIDIA built for agents that stay running: gathering context, calling tools, and working through multi-step tasks. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is made for agentic tasks such as reading a file, calling a tool, sorting a result, and retrying something that failed.
Why it matters
A concrete addition to Practical AI: Tools, Models & Frameworks: it changes what's available to builders today rather than being general commentary.
How it compares
Related prior coverage to compare against:
- Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Long-Context Multimodal Intelligence for Documents, Audio and Video Agents
- OpenJarvis: a local-first personal AI is now available to run with Ollama
- Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: Customizable Multimodal Safety for Global Enterprise AI
Sources
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (ollama-blog)primary