By Amazon Web Services
Publication Date: 2026-08-17 18:06:00
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is designed for the fast, specialized model execution required by high-volume agentic workloads. With NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, you can access an open model designed for high-volume agentic workloads.
With this launch, you can deploy Nemotron 3.5 Lightning from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart without configuring the serving infrastructure yourself. NVIDIA describes Lightning as the fastest open model in its class for powering always-on agents. It delivers up to 4x higher throughput and up to 30% faster task completion on high-volume agentic workloads. At 30B total parameters with only 3B active, it can run on a single supported GPU. Repetitive, specialized steps in agent workflows can therefore run without frontier-scale infrastructure. In this post, we show you how to deploy Nemotron 3.5 Lightning from SageMaker JumpStart.
Overview of NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a publicly available foundation model distilled from NVIDIA’s frontier Nemotron 3 Ultra and developed with the Nemotron Coalition. It uses a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and is trained specifically for agentic tool use across popular agent harnesses. It is trained on open datasets and released as an open model, so you can customize it, own the resulting weights, and deploy it wherever your agents run.
The following table summarizes the key specifications and performance…