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Nemotron 3.5 Doubles NVIDIA’s Score. America’s Open-Weight Gap Is Still There.

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NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL scores 26, twice its predecessor, at $0.25 per index task. Bolt nearly matches June’s 550B flagship with 9B active parameters. The best permissive US open model still ranks 18th.

Thorsten Meyer
October 16, 2026

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Nemotron 3.5 Bolt: An Ultra-Class Score at a Seventh of the Size. You Pay for It in Tokens.

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NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B scores 21.4, close to the 550B Nemotron 3 Ultra. It is the best US model under 100B parameters, but fourth in its class, and it writes 82,000 tokens per task.

Thorsten Meyer
October 16, 2026

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Reality Check

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 25 Cents a Task, Sub-Second Latency, and a Score of 26

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NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL doubles its predecessor’s score, costs $0.25 per index task and answers fast. But at 26 points, open models with MIT licenses deliver far more intelligence for the same money.

Thorsten Meyer
October 16, 2026

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