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Testing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in a Local Agent Loop

Testing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in a Local Agent Loop

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Source post: https://blogs.a2techify.com/2026/08/12/nemotron-local-agent-loops-ollama/ LinkedIn URL: TODO after publishing

Newsletter Title

Testing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in a Local Agent Loop

Intro

A small Ollama-based test of NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning as a local tool-calling worker.

Takeaways

  • Ollama published “NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning” on August 11, 2026. The post says the model is available through Ollama and can be started with:
  • Agent workloads are mostly made of repeated small decisions.
  • The model card describes a hybrid architecture that combines Mamba-2, mixture-of-experts layers, and selected attention layers.
  • The longer-term direction is model routing for agents.

Example Code

https://github.com/A2Techify-LLC/nemotron-local-agent-lab

CTA

Read the full note: https://blogs.a2techify.com/2026/08/12/nemotron-local-agent-loops-ollama/

Publishing Notes

  • Publish manually from the A2Techify LinkedIn Page newsletter editor.
  • After publishing, add the LinkedIn newsletter URL to the source post front matter as linkedin_url.
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Topics: nemotron, ollama, agents, local-ai, tool-calling