Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open multimodal model with 120 billion parameters. It is designed for enterprise agents that run in the background without pause, working through text, images, documents and video. Two smaller "Bolt" models for local PCs and edge devices launch alongside it.

The release adds to a growing field of open-weight models from large tech companies. Nvidia's version comes with more of the underlying materials than most.

Architecture and claimed performance

Super VL uses a Mixture-of-Experts design. Only 12 billion of its 120 billion parameters are active for each token. Nvidia built the model with the Nemotron Coalition, a group that includes Mistral AI, Thinking Machines Lab, Perplexity and Black Forest Labs.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is touring Europe, and he is spending money as he goes. In Paris he said Nvidia will make $2 billion in new investments across Europe, with more detail due the following week, according to Bloomberg. In the UK, the company is giving academic labs that study AI safety a large block of computing power.

The two announcements serve different purposes. One is about commercial reach on the continent. The other is about building credibility with a research community that cares a great deal about how AI systems behave. Together they show how Nvidia wants to be seen in Europe: as an investor, a supplier and a partner to researchers.

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