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title: bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B
url: https://recentmodel.com/models/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B/
status: archived · low-signal
published: 2026-10-07T14:18:44Z
updated: 2026-10-24T23:23:29Z
source: https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B
---

# bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B

ThinkingCap uses 23% fewer thinking tokens and completes 25 tasks in that time, compared to 11 for the base model. Mixture-of-experts, 32B total, 3B active (128 experts, 6 per token). Context: 256K tokens (config). License: openmdw-1.1.


- **Org:** bottlecapai
- **Released:** 2026-10-07
- **Status:** archived · low-signal
- **License:** openmdw-1.1 (permissive)
- **Parameters:** 31.6B total, 3.0B active
- **Architecture:** MoE · 128 experts, 6/token · NemotronHForCausalLM
- **Context:** 262,144 tokens
- **Task:** text-generation · text
- **Signal:** 9 HF likes · 166 downloads
- **Archived:** 2026-10-24 (no longer listed by the collector; stats as last seen)

## Runs on

real quant files; sizing calculation, not tested.

- Q4 ~26.8 GB: 32GB GPU (5090), Mac 36GB, Mac 48GB
- Q8 ~36.4 GB: 48GB GPU (RTX 6000 Ada / A6000), Mac 64GB (M1 Max), CPU only, 64GB RAM (slow)
- FP16 ~67.3 GB: 96GB GPU (RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell), 1× DGX Spark (128GB), 2× DGX Spark (256GB), Strix Halo 128GB unified (~96GB usable), Mac 96GB, Mac 128GB, Mac 192GB, Mac 256GB, Mac 512GB, CPU only, 128GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 256GB RAM (slow)

## Links

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B)
- [Ollama](https://ollama.com/library/nemotron-3.5-lightning)
- [GGUF: bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF)