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Nemotron-Cascade 2 / Mamba-3 SSMs + DeClawed/RLLM/GLM-5V-Turbo

Nemotron-Cascade 2 / Mamba-3 SSMs + DeClawed/RLLM/GLM-5V-Turbo

Key Questions

What is Nemotron-Cascade 2?

Nemotron-Cascade 2 is a 30B MoE model ranking #1 in math and agents benchmarks. It compares via TCO against Gemma4 and Llama3.5+vLLM.

What are Mamba-3 SSMs?

Mamba-3 SSMs are state space models integrated with Nemotron-Cascade 2 and DeClawed/RLLM. They support advanced agentic performance.

What is GLM-5V-Turbo?

GLM-5V-Turbo is a vision-to-code foundation model for GUI automation, understanding images, video, and UI layouts.

What benchmarks compare these models?

Benches focus on TCO vs. Gemma4/Llama3.5+vLLM, highlighting Cascade 2's top math/agent scores.

Cascade 2 30B MoE #1 math/agents; GLM-5V-Turbo vision-to-code/Nemotron-OCR/Self-Distilled RLVR/Falcon Perception. Benches: TCO vs Gemma4/Llama3.5+vLLM.

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Updated Apr 8, 2026