How Small Can an Agent Model Get? The Nemotron Floor

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Most model comparisons ask which model is best. This one starts with a model that never even produced a single result. We tested NVIDIA's open-weight Nemotron family, from the 30B Nano to the 120B Super, on a benchmark of real-world coding tasks: the kind of models an indie developer on a tight budget, or an enterprise cutting inference cost and keeping data in-house, would run. The main finding is that model size is not a dial you turn for a little more quality, it is a threshold. Below a certain capability floor a model cannot drive an agent loop at all, which is why the smallest variant we

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