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        "The card's Transformers snippet names nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B, use nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16 instead",
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      "The card reports BFCL v3 61.1, IFEval 82.8 (prompt) and RULER 91.1 at 128K with reasoning off, and AIME25 78.5 and GPQA 53.2 with reasoning on. These are NVIDIA's numbers from NeMo-Skills, not our measurement (https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16)",
      "NVIDIA aims it at agents on Jetson Thor, GeForce RTX and DGX Spark, naming game characters, local voice assistants and IoT automation (https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16)",
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