FP4 pretraining needs more exposures to learn rare facts
NVFP4 needed 1.32× and 1.52× as many exposures as BF16 to match recall while loss differed by 0.5% and 2%.
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NVFP4 needed 1.32× and 1.52× as many exposures as BF16 to match recall while loss differed by 0.5% and 2%.

From Blackwell Ultra to Vera Rubin, HBM per GPU rose about 3% while claimed agentic throughput per dollar rose up to 30x.
The BF16 checkpoint uses a 256K context, OpenMDW-1.1, and variable loop counts without retraining.
Nvidia released open Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B multimodal model for always-on enterprise agents.
AutoTrust released JEV-35B-NVFP4, a 4-bit quantization of its 35B decision model that cuts GPU memory by 65%.
AutoTrust released JEV-35B, an open-weights 35B Qwen3.5 decision model scoring 59.73 on Decision Index 0.3.
autotrust released an unofficial pruned NVFP4 GLM-5.3-Flash build that fits two NVIDIA DGX Sparks.
Authors report a Qwen3-30B-A3B learner on one B300 node at 33,540 tokens/s, 1.39× BF16 and 1.47× naive TE NVFP4.
autotrust published GEV-26B-Decide-NVFP4, an NVFP4 expert-quantized 26B model that fits in about 17 GB.
SoloQ quantizes diffusion language models to 4-bit without calibration, cutting memory up to 2.61x with NVFP4.
TRIAGE stabilizes native NVFP4 RL on Qwen3 models, matching full precision with up to 2.3x rollout throughput.
Disaggregated quantization tailors LLM prefill and decode formats, raising accuracy and speeding time-to-first-token.

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 debuts in MLPerf Inference v6.1 with up to 3.7x higher throughput than GB300 NVL72 and 99% scaling efficiency at 288 GPUs.
NVIDIA released an NVFP4 4-bit quantized build of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B-parameter MoE vision-language model, via Model Optimizer.
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