NVIDIA's New AI Can Read Documents and Code for You
This AI could save you hours of work by understanding long documents and writing code.
NVIDIA just unveiled Nemotron 3.5 Super, a powerful AI that can understand both images and text. It's designed to help with coding, reasoning, using tools, and reading documents. What makes it special is its ability to process extremely long texts—up to 1 million tokens, which is like reading 750,000 words in one go. That means you could feed it an entire book or a massive report and ask questions about it. The AI also has a 'thinking mode' that you can turn on or off, so it can either give quick answers or take time to reason through complex problems.
For everyday use, NVIDIA also released a smaller version called Nemotron 3.5 Bolt. This one is distilled from Super, meaning it's been trained to mimic its bigger sibling but in a more compact form. Bolt has 74 billion parameters (only 9 billion active at a time) and is tuned to run on a single 24GB NVIDIA GPU—the kind found in many gaming PCs or workstations. So you don't need a data center to use it. It's designed for 'agentic tasks,' which means it can act as a smart assistant that performs actions like scheduling, searching, or automating workflows.
Both models support tool calling, which lets them use external software or APIs to get things done. For example, the AI could book a flight, send an email, or pull data from a database. The Super model's 1M token context is a game-changer for industries like law, medicine, and research, where long documents are common. Instead of skimming, the AI can read everything and give you precise answers. The Bolt model's efficiency means smaller businesses or even individuals can run advanced AI locally, without relying on cloud services.
This release is part of NVIDIA's push to make AI more accessible and capable. While the big model requires serious hardware, the small one brings high-level AI to everyday devices. The error message at the top of the page is unrelated, but the changelog suggests this is version 0.40.5 of some software. Overall, NVIDIA is giving us a glimpse of a future where AI assistants are not just chatbots but true helpers that understand vast amounts of information and take actions on our behalf.
- NVIDIA's new AI can read 750,000 words at once, making it great for analyzing long documents.
- The smaller version, Bolt, runs on a single 24GB GPU, so you can use it on a powerful desktop.
- Both models can use tools and APIs, meaning they can perform tasks like booking or searching for you.
Why It Matters
This could lead to AI assistants that handle complex tasks, saving you time and effort in work and daily life.