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title: "Canonical integrates NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning with Ubuntu for always-on AI agents"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/canonical-integrates-nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning-with-ubuntu-for-always-on-ai-agents-wlclv3k5l
source_url: https://ubuntu.com/blog/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning
type: article
source: "Ubuntu"
published: 2026-08-11T13:29:43.463Z
updated: 2026-08-11T13:30:46.636Z
tags: ["ai-agents", "nvidia", "ubuntu", "snap", "mixture-of-experts"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Canonical integrates NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning with Ubuntu for always-on AI agents

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## Summary

Canonical has integrated NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning into Ubuntu, making it available via a single snap install command. The model is a 30B hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 3B active parameters and a 1 million token context window, designed for always-on, high-throughput agentic workloads. Ubuntu's inference snaps provide a pre-packaged runtime that deploys consistently across workstations, edge devices, and servers, reducing integration complexity for enterprises building AI agent infrastructure.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://ubuntu.com/blog/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning>

## Questions this post answers

### How do I install NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Ubuntu?

Install it with a single command: `sudo snap install nemotron-3-5-lightning`. Canonical distributes it as an inference snap — a pre-packaged AI inference runtime — that deploys consistently across workstations, edge devices, and servers without manual integration or infrastructure setup.

_Developers shipping AI agents on Ubuntu track model availability and deployment options like this on daily.dev._

### What are the specs of NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a 30B hybrid Mixture-of-Experts model with 3B active parameters, distilled from NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra. It supports a 1 million token context window, making it suited for persistent, autonomous AI agents running long multi-step workflows at high throughput.

_Teams evaluating models for always-on agent workloads find architecture comparisons like this on daily.dev._

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