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Nemotron 3 Nano: The Hybrid Mamba-MoE Model Driving Efficient, 1M-Token Agentic AI


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This episode of Neural Intel dives deep into the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B), the foundational model of the new Nemotron 3 family engineered specifically for scalable, trustworthy agentic AI systems. We break down the breakthrough Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, a design that strategically decouples the model's total capacity of 31.6B parameters from its incredibly low operational cost of just 3.2B active parameters per token.This efficiency paradigm delivers unprecedented performance gains critical for multi-agent workflows:• Speed and Throughput: Nemotron 3 Nano offers up to 4x higher token throughput than Nemotron 2 Nano and achieves up to 3.3x faster inference speed compared to other similarly-sized open models, radically improving the tokenomics of concurrent AI operations.• Long-Horizon Reasoning: The model features a reliable, native 1-million-token (1M) context window, allowing agents to maintain persistent memory and perform deep, multi-document reasoning over massive inputs like entire codebases and extended conversations.• Accuracy and Alignment: Learn how the model achieves superior reasoning accuracy through advanced post-training, specifically multi-environment reinforcement learning conducted across diverse tasks using the open-source library, NeMo Gym.We discuss NVIDIA’s commitment to open models, releasing the weights, training recipes, and comprehensive datasets—including 3T new tokens—to provide developers with the transparency and flexibility needed to customize and deploy specialized AI agents securely. Finally, we look ahead to the Nemotron 3 Super and Ultra models, expected in the first half of 2026, which promise even higher reasoning depth and efficiency-minded enhancements like Latent MoE and NVFP4 training.Keywords: Nemotron 3 Nano, Agentic AI, Multi-Agent Systems, Hybrid MoE, Mamba-Transformer, 1M Context Window, High Throughput, Open Source LLM, NeMo Gym, Reinforcement Learning, AI Agents, Inference Efficiency.

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