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Ollama 0.40.5 adds NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super (120B MoE VLM, 1M ctx, tool calling)

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vendor: ollamapublished: 1d agoconfidence: 0.90id: e16a0dd3-ae94-4b32-8d0e-f807f257e887

Ollama 0.40.5 adds support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super, a 120B hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer MoE vision-language model (12B active) with tool calling, an on/off thinking mode, and 1M-token context, plus a 74B 'Bolt' sibling that fits in 24GB VRAM with speculative decoding. Also ships cloud 'clef' decision models and fixes OpenAI-compatible Responses tool-call continuation.

capability delta

An agent can now run NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super/Bolt locally via Ollama — a 120B hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer MoE VLM with tool calling, toggleable thinking mode, 1M-token context, and a C-RADIO vision encoder.

curator note

Ollama 0.40.5 ships Nemotron 3.5 Super (120B/12B active MoE VLM) and Bolt (74B/9B active, 24GB GPU friendly, speculative decoding). Also adds cloud 'clef' decision models and fixes OpenAI Responses custom tool-call continuation.

// install
brew upgrade ollama
github · ollama/ollama @ v0.40.5
// example
bash
# Install/upgrade Ollama to v0.40.5, then run Nemotron 3.5 Super
ollama run nemotron-3.5-super

# Or the smaller 24GB-GPU-friendly sibling
ollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt

# Agentic use via the OpenAI-compatible API with tool calling
curl http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "model": "nemotron-3.5-super",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is the weather in Paris?"}],
    "tools": [{
      "type": "function",
      "function": {
        "name": "get_weather",
        "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"city": {"type": "string"}}}
      }
    }]
  }'
// links
ollamanemotronnvidiavlmmixture-of-expertsmambatool-callinglocal-inferencelong-context
source: github_release · https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.40.5