Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Bolt, an open model that fits in 24GB
The Bolt 74B-A9B model runs on a local machine for agent tasks, and Nvidia offers Super VL with 120 billion parameters beside it.
Nvidia released open AI programs you can run on your own computer. One is small enough to work in 24GB of memory. That helps people who want to keep their files at home.
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It gives developers an open choice for running on their own machine without sending data to the cloud.
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- Nvidia announced the Nemotron 3.5 family on October 15, and TechCrunch covers it today.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an open model with 120 billion , available now.
- Bolt 74B-A9B uses native 2-bit quantization to fit in 24GB of memory and is on Hugging Face.
- The smaller 4GB Bolt E4B arrives October 23 for conversational agents.
- The source pages do not name the models' licence, so check each model page.
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