Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra hits 48 points — but is it enough to catch China
nvidia's nemotron 3 ultra leads us open models with a 48-point benchmark score, yet trails china's kimi k2.6 by 6 points. this narrows the gap in high-performance open ai.
nvidia's nemotron 3 ultra is now the highest-scoring open ai model from the us, reaching 48 points on the artificial analysis leaderboard, beating google's gemma 4 31b. despite this win, it lags behind china's moonshot kimi k2.6, which holds a 6-point lead, and the closed-source opus 4.8 by a larger margin. performance benchmarks show nemotron generating over 300 tokens per second on deepinfra, vastly outpacing the 50-100 tps speeds of comparable chinese models. nvidia plans a full release on june 4 via hugging face and openrouter. this release intensifies the race for open-source dominance between us and chinese developers.