Release10d ago
NVIDIA open-sources Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, a Gemma 4 E4B-based small model for local assistants, characters and robots with tool use
On 2026-10-23 (15:41 UTC) the official @NVIDIAAI account announced Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, a small open model for local assistants, interactive characters and robots that can hold a conversation and use tools. The official Hugging Face model card says it is post-trained from Gemma-4-E4B-it, has 8B total parameters (4B effective), ships in Q4_K_M quantization, supports up to 64K input and 64K output tokens, and has a switchable thinking mode, plus a DFlash speculative-decoding drafter and a BF16 version. Weights, data and recipes are open under the OpenMDW-1.1 license, with commercial use allowed. On the model card the 4GB build scores 55.60 on MultiChallenge (Gemma4 E4B-it at the same quantization 39.36, Qwen3.5 4B 52.23), but trails Qwen3.5 4B on Tau2-Bench (52.32) and BFCL-v3 (67.31).
Models17d ago
NVIDIA quietly releases Dory1.0-4B, a looped model with adjustable inference depth (61.8 SWE-bench Verified, vendor-reported)
NVIDIA published Nemotron-Labs Dory1.0-4B on Hugging Face on Oct 16: a 20-layer shared block runs 1, 2 or 4 times at inference so one checkpoint serves several compute budgets. NVIDIA reports 61.8 on SWE-bench Verified at 4 loops, close to Qwen3.5-9B. BF16/MXFP8/NVFP4/GGUF under OpenMDW-1.1.
Tooling2d ago
NVIDIA says AI agents now steer the SETI Allen Telescope Array, calibrating it and analyzing up to 2.4 Tbps of live radio data from plain-language requests
An Oct 30 NVIDIA blog post says Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute have brought agents into daily SETI work at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA, 42 dishes of 6 m each) in Northern California: from a single natural-language request, agents can steer the antennas, calibrate and focus, fix data errors, and run AI models on the live stream. Holoscan's DAQIRI library pulls sensor data straight into GPU memory, the SETI Institute's CyberEther handles signal processing, and the web-based orchestrator Nexus acts as the agent harness, handling up to 2.4 Tbps on premises on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs. The pipeline has made the first real-time AI detection of a pulsar in the Crab Nebula, and the team is evaluating open models such as Nemotron. The @NVIDIAAI Halloween post on Oct 31 drew about 274 likes.
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