NVIDIA shipped Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, alongside NeMo Switchyard — an open-source library that routes each step of an AI agent workflow to whichever model fits best. The headline numbers: Lightning delivers up to 4x faster output than comparable models and completes agentic tasks roughly 30% faster than Qwen3.6-35B at matching accuracy. Paired through Switchyard, NVIDIA says the combination holds frontier-level task...