NVIDIA's new Nemotron model takes the top US open-weight slot, Artificial Analysis says
The benchmark group says the 550B-parameter model scores 47.7 on its Intelligence Index, with weights posted on Hugging Face.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: X
Why it matters
NVIDIA is using open weights to compete higher up the AI stack: not just selling GPUs, but offering models that can influence where developers build and deploy inference workloads.
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a new open-weight model that Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) says is now the strongest US open-weight model on its benchmark, according to a thread on X published Thursday. NVIDIA also pointed to the model in an official X post and its GTC Taipei/Computex 2026 news post.…