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Nemotron 3 Ultra

Nemotron 3 Ultra is an open-weight language model from NVIDIA, released on June 4, 2026.

Developer
NVIDIA
Released
June 4, 2026
Total parameters
550B
Active parameters per token
55B
Architecture
MoE
Context window
1M
Input
Text
License
OpenMDW License Agreement v1.1
Commercial use
Yes
Official weights, GB
1,121 GB
Hugging Face repository
huggingface.co
Checked on

Nemotron 3 Ultra is a mixture-of-experts model with 550B total parameters, of which 55B are active for each token. NVIDIA lists a context window of up to 1M tokens. The model takes text input. The weights are released under the OpenMDW License Agreement v1.1, which allows commercial use.

The official weights on Hugging Face take about 1,121 GB in BF16. Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less.

Total parameters, billions
550B
Active parameters, billions
55B
Context window, tokens
1M
License type
Custom license
License conditions
OpenMDW 1.1: redistributions must include the agreement and origin notices, and the rights end for anyone who sues claiming the materials infringe.
Weights precision
BF16
Official quantized or alternative versions
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-NVFP4
License text
raw.githubusercontent.com
Sources
PageURL
Hugging Face model cardhttps://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16/raw/main/README.md
License text on GitHubhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenMDW/OpenMDW/refs/heads/main/1.1/LICENSE.OpenMDW-1.1
Hugging Face weights indexhttps://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16/raw/main/model.safetensors.index.json

Questions

What license does Nemotron 3 Ultra use?
The weights are released under the OpenMDW License Agreement v1.1, which allows commercial use.
What are the conditions of the OpenMDW license?
Redistributions must include the agreement and origin notices, and the rights end for anyone who sues claiming the materials infringe.
How much memory does Nemotron 3 Ultra need?
The official BF16 weights take about 1,121 GB. NVIDIA also publishes an NVFP4 version, which needs less; the memory calculator checks which setups fit.
How many parameters does Nemotron 3 Ultra have?
550B in total, of which 55B are active for each token, with a context window of up to 1M tokens.

Sources

Every figure comes from the developer’s model card, license text and official announcements, and from the model’s Hugging Face repository metadata. Each model page lists its sources and the date they were checked; the register is rechecked every week.

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