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NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now free on Vercel AI Gateway

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now free on Vercel AI Gateway, with no per-token charge: 30B parameters, 3B active per token, a 1M-token context and tool calling. The catch: free-tier rate limits, and NVIDIA may keep prompts sent to the free endpoint.

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