NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL, a 12-billion-parameter open multimodal reasoning model, demonstrates exceptional speed, consistently ranking among the fastest models across all evaluated benchmarks. It also offers highly competitive pricing, placing it among the most cost-effective options available. The model exhibits strong reliability with a 91% success rate, indicating consistent and usable responses. In terms of performance across categories, Nemotron Nano 2 VL excels in General Knowledge and Ethics, achieving near-perfect scores of 99.5% and 100% respectively. Its 100% accuracy in Ethics is particularly noteworthy, making it the most accurate model at its price point and among models of similar speed. The model also shows strong capabilities in Reasoning (94.0% accuracy) and Email Classification (98.0% accuracy). However, it exhibits significant weaknesses in Instruction Following, scoring 0.0% accuracy, and performs below average in Mathematics (52.6% accuracy) and Coding (65.6% accuracy). Its ability to acknowledge uncertainty (Hallucinations baseline) is moderate at 80.0%. Designed for video understanding and document intelligence, its hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture contributes to its high throughput and low latency, supporting its strong speed performance.