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Practitioner Benchmark: Nemotron 3 Nano 4B Fails Where Qwen 3.5 4B Passes.

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NVIDIA's freshly released 4B entrant failed all custom agentic benchmarks where Qwen 3.5 4B Q8 passed every one. First head-to-head from GTC model releases. 142 upvotes on r/LocalLLaMA. Source

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