Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt: a 120B server model and a 24GB local agent model
What is it?
Super VL is a multimodal MoE with 120B parameters, 12B active, built for always-on agents that read web pages, PDFs, tables and charts and call tools. Bolt 74B-A9B uses native 2-bit quantization to fit in 24GB, so it can run local agents on an RTX PC or DGX Spark; a 4GB Bolt E4B follows on Oct 23. Weights are on Hugging Face, OpenRouter and NVIDIA NIM, and Bolt works with llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio.
llama-server -hf nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB-GGUFWhy does it matter?
NVIDIA says it's up to 5x fasterVendor claim than other open models in its class, a big deal if your agents chew through piles of documents. The training datasets and recipes are public too, so post-training on your own data is easier, and NVIDIA says Atlassian, CrowdStrike and Perplexity are already customizing it. Bolt ranks first in its class on PinchBenchVendor claim, which makes it worth a try for work you'd rather keep on a laptop than send to the cloud.
Maturity
GASuper VL and Bolt 74B-A9B are downloadable today. Bolt E4B is due Oct 23. Hugging Face lists the license as 'other' (NVIDIA's own terms), so check them before commercial use.
How to track it
- Release date: check that Bolt E4B 4GB lands in the nvidia Hugging Face org on Oct 23.
- Independent scores: compare Super VL's intelligence index and tokens per second on artificialanalysis.ai with the '5x faster' claim.
- Local speed: follow Ollama and LM Studio community reports on Bolt running on RTX Spark laptops (out Oct 16) and the RTX 5090.