Nemotron-Cascade 2: 30B MoE Delivers Best-in-Class at 3B Active Params

NVIDIA released Nemotron-Cascade 2 — a 30B MoE model activating only 3B parameters per token, trained with Cascade RL and multi-domain on-policy distillation. Claims best-in-class reasoning among open models at its efficiency tier with strong agentic task performance. The Cascade RL approach progressively distills larger teacher reasoning chains into the MoE routing policy rather than dense weights. Serious option for cost-sensitive production agent deployments.