Nemotron Nano 2 VL

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• Released 28 October 2025 ● Primary source[2]Release Date [1]Add multimodal understanding and reasoning with NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL

• Status AvailableNVIDIA has no deprecation page for its open models; the BF16, FP8 and NVFP4-QAD weights were still downloadable from NVIDIA's Hugging Face organisation on 2026-10-01. ● Primary source[2]

• Derived from (other) Nemotron Nano 2Vision-language model built on the Nemotron Nano V2 12B reasoning LLM (NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2) combined with a RADIO vision encoder and an MLP projector, trained in several supervised fine-tuning stages. ● Primary source[3]Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Model Architecture [2]Model Architecture

• Change · Modality Adds image and video input to the text-only Nemotron Nano 2 language model it is built on.Compared with Nemotron Nano 2 ● Primary source[2] [4]Input
• Change · Efficiency Introduces Efficient Video Sampling, which drops video patches that stay unchanged over time to cut token counts for long videos.Compared with Nemotron Nano 2 ● Primary source[3]

• Input text, image, videoUp to four input images; video frames sampled at 2 FPS, 8 to 128 frames. ● Primary source[2]Input
• Output text ● Primary source[2]Output
• Feature Reasoning modeSupports reasoning-on and reasoning-off modes. ● Primary source[3]1 Introduction; 4.3 Reasoning Budget Control
• Open weights YesCheckpoints in BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 (QAD) under the NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement. ● Primary source[2]License/Terms of Use; Release Date [3]Abstract
• Context window 128K tokensStated as input plus output tokens. ● Primary source[2]Input: Input + Output Token [3]1 Introduction
• Parameters 12.6BNVIDIA's blog and technical report round this to 12B. ● Primary source[2]Number of model parameters
• Access Open-weights download, APIHugging Face and build.nvidia.com; the blog also says it is available as an NVIDIA NIM. ● Primary source[2]Release Date [1]Add multimodal understanding and reasoning with NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL

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