Open Source12d ago
NVIDIA open-sources Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B-A12B multimodal agent model, 1M context) and the 24GB 2-bit local Bolt 74B-A9B
On 2026-10-15 NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open multimodal agent model with 120B total / 12B active parameters: a Mamba-2–Transformer hybrid MoE with a C-RADIO vision encoder, text/image/document/video input, up to 1M context, and built-in MTP plus LiLiCorr speculative decoding. Weights, datasets and recipes ship under OpenMDW-1.1 on Hugging Face, OpenRouter, ModelScope and NIM. Alongside it, NVIDIA published Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB, a natively 2-bit (QAT) local agent model for RTX/DGX Spark; the 4GB Bolt E4B follows on Oct 23.
Inference6d ago
vLLM and Ant Group Open-Source Humming: Up to 5x Kernel Acceleration and +43.3% MoE Throughput
The vLLM project team and Ant Group officially open-sourced Humming (humming-kernels), a specialized high-performance kernel library designed for serving quantized MoE and dense LLMs at massive scale. Humming natively supports WnA16, W8A8, W4A8, and W4A4 across INT1–INT8 and FP4–FP8 formats, spanning NVIDIA architectures from Turing through Blackwell as well as T-Head Zhenwu 810E silicon. In production benchmarks, Humming kernels outpace cuBLAS by 3–4x at small batch sizes and surpass Marlin by 2x on H200 clusters. Serving DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash across 8x H20 GPUs, Humming drives a +43.3% throughput gain under 64 concurrent requests while reducing time-to-first-token (TTFT) by 32%, pre-integrated directly into vLLM v0.29.0+.
Tooling6d ago
vLLM and Ant Group open-source Humming, one quantized-inference kernel library for many formats and every NVIDIA GPU since Turing, lifting DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash end-to-end throughput by 14-43%
On Oct 21 the vLLM community and Ant Group open-sourced Humming (Apache 2.0), a quantized-inference library that JIT-compiles GEMM kernels on demand. It supports every NVIDIA architecture from Turing on plus T-Head's Zhenwu 810E, and covers weight and activation combinations from INT1-INT8 and FP4-FP8 for dense and MoE workloads. In vLLM's microbenchmarks it runs 2-5x faster than vLLM Marlin, FlashInfer or DeepGEMM in some cases; on 8 H20 GPUs, switching DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash MoE from Marlin W4A16 to Humming W4A8 raised throughput 14-43%. vLLM 0.29.0 ships it built in.
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