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      "NVIDIA's table puts it at 83.73 on MMLU-Pro, 60.47 on SWE-Bench Verified with OpenHands, 31.00 on Terminal Bench Core 2.0 and 91.75 on RULER at 1M tokens, run with its open NeMo Evaluator SDK. These are NVIDIA's numbers, not our measurement (https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16)",
      "The card lists its training data by collection with token counts, 15,573,172,908,990 tokens across 153 datasets, and NVIDIA publishes major parts of the pre-training and post-training corpora on Hugging Face, some of them gated (https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/nemotron-pre-training-datasets)",
      "Ollama's library has a local nemotron-3-super entry, 87 GB for the default q4_K_M build, with 3M downloads shown on 21 October 2026 (https://ollama.com/library/nemotron-3-super)",
      "Community GGUF builds exist (unsloth, lmstudio-community, bartowski and others). None of them is NVIDIA's. NVIDIA published a vision-language successor line, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, on 12 October 2026 under a different licence (https://huggingface.co/api/models?search=Nemotron-3-Super-120B)"
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        "value": "The open weights at huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16, with the FP8 and NVFP4 repositories, read from the model card and its subcards, the files and their metadata, the chat template, the licence, the technical report, NVIDIA's cookbook repository and the runtimes' own code on 21 October 2026. Nothing was downloaded or run. NVIDIA's hosted endpoint on build.nvidia.com isn't graded here"
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        "label": "Licence",
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        "value": "Serving commands on the card for vLLM 0.18.1, SGLang (a nightly container) and TensorRT-LLM 1.3.0rc8, with NVIDIA's cookbooks. Model code in Transformers since 5.3.0, vLLM, SGLang and mlx-lm, the nemotron_h_moe architecture with Super's latent tensors in llama.cpp, and a local nemotron-3-super entry in Ollama's library"
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        "Nothing is hosted in this listing, so the licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.",
        "The changelog is the repository's commit history. Since 10 March 2026 only the card has changed, with some messages that say what (Update BF16 configs, Update KV Cache/Mamba dtype, Update for MTPv2) and several that read Update README.md.",
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          "points": 10,
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          "check": "Status page",
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