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The Forge · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Turns a Sparse Agent Model into a SageMaker JumpStart Catalog Item

A sparse model built for continuous agent traffic is now a deployable listing inside a hyperscaler catalog. AWS says NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning — 30 billion total parameters, 3 billion active — delivers up to 4x higher throughput and up to 30% faster task completion for always-on agents. We report what the announcement states, mark what it leaves out, and set out how to test it against your own workloads.

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