Nemotron Nano 2Open Weight

Nemotron Nano 2 was released by NVIDIA on Monday, Aug 18 2025.

Nemotron Nano 2 was built by NVIDIA. The dominant AI chipmaker, publishing the open Nemotron model family. Ships weights, datasets and training recipes to seed demand for its hardware rather than to sell a chatbot.

Nemotron Nano 2 reports 2 tracked benchmark scores — LiveCodeBench: 71.1%; GPQA Diamond: 64%. Scores are the figures published at release by NVIDIA.

Nemotron Nano 2 is reported at 9B parameters.

Partly. Nemotron Nano 2 is an open-weight model: the trained weights are free to download and run locally or on your own infrastructure, but the training data and code are not fully released and the license may restrict some commercial uses. It is not open source in the strict sense.

NVIDIA's previous tracked release was Llama Nemotron Ultra 253B on Apr 8 2025, 132 days earlier. It was followed by Nemotron 3 Nano on Dec 15 2025.