NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 9B V2

NVIDIA: Nemotron Nano 9B V2 demonstrates exceptional speed, consistently ranking among the fastest models. It also offers competitive pricing, typically providing cost-effective solutions. The model exhibits outstanding reliability with a 99% success rate, indicating minimal technical failures. In terms of benchmark performance, Nemotron Nano 9B V2 shows strong capabilities in several areas. It achieves high accuracy in Hallucinations (98.0%), General Knowledge (98.6%), and particularly excels in Ethics with a perfect 100% accuracy, making it the most accurate among models of comparable speed. Its Reasoning capabilities are also a significant strength, scoring 89.8% accuracy and ranking in the top 3 for cost efficiency in this category. However, the model exhibits notable weaknesses in Instruction Following and Mathematics, where it scored 0.0% accuracy in both benchmarks. Coding performance is moderate at 83.0% accuracy, while Email Classification is 94.1%, placing it in the lower percentile for this task. The model's design, which involves generating a reasoning trace before a final response, is a unique feature that can be controlled via system prompts.