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Nemotron Cascade 2: NVIDIA's 30B-A3B MoE Outperforms Qwen3.5-35B

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3B active parameters, beats Qwen3.5-35B-A3B on AIME 2025 (92.4 vs 91.9), LiveCodeBench v6 (87.2 vs 74.6), and surpasses the larger Nemotron-3-Super-120B. Available on Ollama and HuggingFace under open license. Source

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