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nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b

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Open, efficient MoE model with 1M context, excelling in coding, reasoning, instruction following, tool calling, and more

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Follow the steps below to download and run the NVIDIA NIM inference microservice for this model on your infrastructure of choice.

Step 1
Generate API Key

Step 2
Pull and Run the NIM

$ docker login nvcr.io
Username: $oauthtoken
Password: <PASTE_API_KEY_HERE>

Pull and run the NVIDIA NIM with the command below. This will download the optimized model for your infrastructure.

export NGC_API_KEY=<PASTE_API_KEY_HERE>
export LOCAL_NIM_CACHE=~/.cache/nim
mkdir -p "$LOCAL_NIM_CACHE"
docker run -it --rm \
    --gpus all \
    --shm-size=16GB \
    -e NGC_API_KEY \
    -v "$LOCAL_NIM_CACHE:/opt/nim/.cache" \
    -p 8000:8000 \
    nvcr.io/nim/nvidia/nemotron-3-nano:latest

Step 3
Test the NIM

You can now make a local API call using this curl command:

curl -X 'POST' \
'http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1/chat/completions' \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
    "model": "nvidia/nemotron-3-nano",
    "messages": [{"role":"user", "content":"Which number is larger, 9.11 or 9.8?"}],
    "max_tokens": 64
}'

For more details on getting started with this NIM, visit the NVIDIA NIM Docs.