Nemotron
NVIDIA's fast thinking model with a huge memory for long files.
FreeOpenRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Long documents and agent tasks
- On your PC
- Some setup
- Works on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- License
- NVIDIA Open Model License
What’s good
- Reads up to 1 million tokens at once
- Fast, only about 3.5B parts active per word
- Tiny 4B size (3 GB) for older laptops
Downsides
- Custom NVIDIA license, not a standard open one
- Text only, six languages officially supported
- 24 GB download for the 30B size
At a glance.
- Best for
- Long documents and agent tasks
- Price
- Free, open source
- Version
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3BReleased 2025-12
- Works on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Open source
- Yes, NVIDIA Open Model License
- Made by
- NVIDIA
- Website
- huggingface.co
Should you use it?
It is #5 of 10. Good for long documents and agent tasks; for most people, Qwen is the better start.
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Some setup: download a model inside an app.
Use LM Studio, Ollama, llama.cpp.
- You need
- 24 GB graphics card, 32 GB Mac, or 32 GB RAM
- Setup
- Some setupDownload a model inside an app
- Laptop, 8 GBToo small
- PC, 16 GB+Too small
- Mac, 16 GBToo small
- Mac, 32 GBRuns
- Mac, 64 GB+Runs
- PC, 8 GB GPUToo small
- PC, 12 GB GPURuns
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns