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Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson
· 46 Minutes
PodcastPractical AI
Finding Nemotron
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In this episode, we sit down with Joey Conway to explore NVIDIA's open source AI, from the reasoning-focused Nemotron models built on top of Llama, to the blazing-fast Parakeet speech model. We chat about what makes open foundation models so valuable, how enterprises can think about deploying multi-model strategies, and why reasoning is becoming the key differentiator in real-world AI applications.
Featuring:
- Joey Conway – LinkedIn
- Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X
Links:
- Llama Nemotron Ultra
- NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Ultra Open Model Delivers Groundbreaking Reasoning Accuracy
- Independent analysis of AI
- Parakeet Model
- Parakeet Leaderboard
- Try the Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 model here and here
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