Earlier this week, Nvidia released a new artificial intelligence model, Nemotron, with benchmark tests showing the model outperforming offerings from industry heavyweights, OpenAI and Anthropic. The product’s full name is Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct and it has similarities to Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B offering. It debuted on the wide-ranging AI hosting platform HuggingFace – which recently surpassed one million models – without much fuss but its performance has ensured word is spreading fast. The open-source reward model has its training dataset available on HuggingFace, with a test preview on the company website. Nvidia has reported its new release has achieved top scores across various markers, including 85.0 on the Arena Hard benchmark, 57.6 on AlpacaEval 2 LC, and an 8.98 score on the GPT-4-Turbo MT-Bench. Those results compare very favorably to established models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o as well as Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet offering, even though Nemotron is considerably smaller at 70B parameters. Our Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct model is a leading model on the