Nvidia Unveils Nemotron 3 Ultra: Top US Open AI Model Still Trails Chinese Rivals
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Jose Antonio Lanz
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra at Computex in Taipei, the company's largest open AI model with 550 billion total parameters (55 billion active) using a mixture-of-experts design. While it outperforms all other American open-weight AI systems by a significant margin, it still trails behind Chinese-developed AI models, highlighting the ongoing competitive gap between US and Chinese AI development.
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· 3 pulledJensen Huang walked onto the Computex stage in Taipei on Sunday, leather jacket on, and unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra—Nvidia's largest open AI model ever and, at least for now, the smartest open-weight model built in America.
It's good. It's just not good enough to beat China.
The model packs roughly 550 billion total parameters but runs on only 55 billion active ones at any given moment, using a design called mixture-of-experts.
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